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Artist: Chiura Obata
Title: Full Moon, Pasadena, California
Original Woodblock Print
Series: World Landscape Series
Date: 1930
Publisher: Takamizawa Color-Print Studio
Size 13 x 17 -3/4 "
This bridge (The Colorado St. Bridge) still stands today as the western entrance to the city of Pasadena spanning the canyon that leads north to the Rose Bowl.
Begun in 1928 when Obata visited Japan, the World Landscape Series took 18 months to complete. The project required the work of 32 block carvers and 40 printers with each print requiring from 100 to as many as 160 impressions in order to accurately replicate Obata's original watercolors. The folio consisted of 35 colored woodblock prints. All but one show California scenes, and 27 are views of Yosemite and the High Sierra. It is believed that 100 folios were sent to the artist for his signature and seal. A few sets were retained by the publisher. With the exception of "Van Ness Avenue", the prints being offered have all come from a single publisher's folio. Each print has the publishers name stamped on the reverse. The folder illustration shows the publisher's watermark, visible below the title slip. PRINTS BY OBATA IN FINE CONDITION, EXHIBITING FRESH COLORS, AS WITH THESE, ARE VERY SCARCE. |
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