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Passing Rain High Sierra, U.S.A.

Artist Chiura Obata (American, 1885 - 1975)

Place of OriginJapan

Date1931

MaterialsInk and colors on paper

DimensionsH. 11 in × W. 15 3/4 in (H. 27.9 cm × W. 40 cm); Image: H. 11 in × W. 15 3/4 in (H. 27.9 cm × W. 40 cm)

Credit LineGift from the Estate of Chiura Obata

Object number2021.55

DepartmentJapanese Art

ClassificationsPrints And Drawings

On View

Not on view

InscribedVerso: Passing Rain High Sierra, U.S.A. 山雨一過（米國ハイ・シエラ）横繪 114度手刷明鏡の如く澄み渡る大空に、片雲たたよえば、勿ち雨どなり霰と變ずる千變萬化極りなき山嶮の自然。山雨一過したるセーラ山中名もなき湖畔のぬれ色。 Made and Printed in Japan at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio [English translation of Japanese verso inscription: "Passing Rain (U.S.A., High Sierra ), Horizontal picture, 114 degrees hand printed. Upon the clear, mirror-like sky appear lumps of rain-clouds which sail speedily over the mountains watering all things beneath as they go by and refreshing all. "]

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A second work, titled Passing Rain High Sierra, U.S.A. (bottom), is a woodblock print carefully executed to reproduce Obata’s original watercolor painting. Published by Takamizawa Printing Company in Tokyo in a process requiring 114 separate printing stages, the print was made as part of a folio of thirty-five prints titled World Landscape Series.