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Death's Grave Pass and Tenaya Peak, High Sierra, USA: from the World Landscape Series "America" by Chiura Obata

Deaths Grave Pass and Tenaya Peak, High Sierra, USA: from the World Landscape Series America by Chiura Obata

Death's Grave Pass and Tenaya Peak, High Sierra, USA: from the World Landscape Series "America"

Chiura Obata

Title

Death's Grave Pass and Tenaya Peak, High Sierra, USA: from the World Landscape Series "America"

 
Artist

Chiura Obata

  1885 - 1975 (biography)
Year
1930  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
11 x 15 3/4" image size 
Signature
unsigned 
Edition Size
proof outside of the published edition of 100 
Annotations
stamp verso: Made and Printed in Japan at Takamizawa Color-Print Studio 
Reference
Obata's World Landscape Series "America" no. 21; illustrated on page 57 of "Obata's Yosemite" 
Paper
antique-white laid made by Fukui Sugiwara in northern Japan 
State
printer's proof 
Publisher
Takamizawa Print Works, Japan 
Inventory ID
ColCo107 
Price
SOLD
Description

"Death's Grave Pass" was included in Obata's portfolio of color woodcuts, World Landscape Series America. According to Driesbach, there were reportedly 400 impressions of each of the 35 compositions made, with only the finest 100 selected for the portfolios. The project employed morethan 32 carvers and 40 printers over eighteen months.

Since this impression is not signed, but has the printer's stamp on the verso, it is probably one of the rejected proofs. The paper has a number of small, pinhole size holes, which have been expertly repaired and are not visible from the recto. Death's Grave Pass is listed as No. 21 in Obata's World Landcape Series America and in Obata's personal list. There were 110 printing sequences from the blocks. It is a very fine, fresh impression.