Sat, Jul 25, 2020:  Day 127 of self-quarantine:  Watching the Ken Burns series on the National Parks also reacquainted me with the Japanese artist, Chiura Obata. 

Chiura Obata emigrated from Japan in 1903.  He soon became well known in the artistic community of San Francisco.  He loved painting landscapes and would hike around Yosemite and other National Parks and paint.  His works are so dramatic in their simplicity.  I love his stuff.  After the onset of WWII, he was interred in one of those camps.  But it didn’t deter his love for this country.  He created several amazing paintings of the camp he was in.  He gave one of them to Eleanor Roosevelt who had admired it.  An amazing man.

Mike grilled steaks for dinner tonight.  Together with corn on the cob.  90s again today.

 This is one of my favorites

Yosemite Falls
Chiura Obata