Six and Twenty explores ‘Obata’s Yosemite’
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Members of The Six & Twenty Book Club met via Zoom Friday, May 7. Program leader Kathleen Blake chose the book “Obata’s Yosemite” to pass among members last year, which is now the current year due to pandemic rescheduling.
Published by the Yosemite Conservancy, the book details the art and letters of Japanese artist Chiura Obata from his trip to the High Sierra mountains in 1927. Blake had seen Obata’s work at the National Portrait Gallery in fall 2019 and was amazed at his treatment of Yosemite’s awe-inspiring monuments from her home state of California.