Obata Chiura; November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist and

Obata Chiura; November 18, 1885 – October 6, 1975) was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher.A self-described "roughneck" Obata went to the United States in 1903, at age 17. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career as a painter, following a 1927 summer spent in the Sierra Nevada, and was a faculty member in the Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1932 to 1954,Private collector,Water Color on Paper,size:14”h x 10”w,come with frame.