Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Obata, Chiura
setName: label: See more items in
content: Chiura Obata papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear feet (Boxes 1, 6, OV 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1894-1898
label: Date
content: 1935-circa 1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.obatchiu, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: A biographical sketch and chronologies on Chiura Obata are at the beginning of the series; the rest of the material is in chronological order.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 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.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.