Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw911eb717f-3914-4874-8bb3-3a9e1572a6ae

Collection Creator

Obata, Chiura

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Chiura Obata papers

Sponsor

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Extent

0.2 Linear feet (Boxes 1, 6, OV 4)

Date

1894-1898

1935-circa 1975

Archival Repository

Archives of American Art

Identifier

AAA.obatchiu, Series 1

Type

Archival materials

Collection Citation

Chiura Obata papers, circa 1891-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Arrangement

A biographical sketch and chronologies on Chiura Obata are at the beginning of the series; the rest of the material is in chronological order.

Collection Rights

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Existence and Location of Copies

The bulk of this series has been digitized. Materials which have not been digitized include blank pages of notebooks and duplicates. A few publications have only had their covers and relevant pages digitized.

Scope and Contents

Included in this series are Chiura Obata's biographical sketches and chronologies, school diplomas and resumes, and an interview transcript, as well as material related to his family's forced relocation and eventual resettlement. Also included is material related to another prisoner's attack on him while incarcerated in Topaz in 1943. There is a small amount of biographical material on other people, such as documents related to memorial meetings held for Perham Nahl, a friend, artist and Berkeley art professor; and material related to the forced relocation of Hiro Niwa, a fellow Japanese American who was also incarcerated at Tanforan and Topaz along with the Obata family during World War II; and George and Hisako Hibi, who were also at Topaz and Tanforan, George Hibi also helped found the Topaz art school alongside Obata.

Collection Restrictions

This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Record ID

ebl-1602077428998-1602077429022-0