In 1903, at the age of seventeen, the artist Chiura Obata (1885–1975) emigrated from Japan to the United States. He first found work in San Francisco as an illustrator, then, in 1932, joined the ...

As it should be, the 1906 earthquake is always marked on April 18, but we rarely take the time to think much about the 7.9 earthquake beyond its anniversary. In the days following the quake, the ...

The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources workshop Michaela Rife Chiura Obata, El Capitan, n.d., watercolor on ...

As a child, Kimi Hill had seen the sketches that her grandfather, the well-known artist and UC Berkeley professor Chiura Obata, made while in World War II internment camps. But the artwork sat in ...

Chiura Obata, "Grand Canyon," May 15, 1940, watercolor on silk, 17 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches, Amber and Richard Sakai Collection. Chiura Obata (1885–1975) ranks among the most significant California-based ...

Chiura Obata (1885-1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 ...

If you haven’t heard of Chiura Obata, you probably aren’t alone. The artist led a whirlwind life, featuring disasters natural and human, but never gained widespread recognition for his work. That ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Gyo Obata, world-renowned American architect and founder of ...

Architects tend to have fairly expansive ideas about the concept of space, especially architects as renowned as Gyo Obata, the original O in the global architecture firm HOK. Obata has been the design ...

Gyo Obata, a giant of American architecture whose impact on the built environment can be keenly felt across his adopted hometown of St. Louis and in locales further afield, passed away on March 8. He ...