Chiura Obata
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Japanese-American artist, https://americanart.si.edu/artist/chiura-obata-27393
Discovered his art accidentally when browsing for 2020 calendars in American Book Center, Amsterdam!
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His series of paintings on Yosemite, made around 1930: El Capitan, Half-dome, red woods. beautiful! Brings back my own nostalgic memories of Yosemite from the turn of the century…
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