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TITLE "Dust Storm, Topaz" DESCRIPTION "Dust Storm, Topaz" by Chiura Obata Scene depicts the coal pile and barracks engulfed in a dust storm. Watercolor, 14 1/4" x 19 3/8" CONTEXT "The desert dust storm! Barracks, rooms -- everything, everywhere was sunk in darkness! But not so our hopes and determination to conquer nature's violence. We looked up, and there, as if in answer, not fifty feet above us we saw the pure blue of the skies." Chiura Obata, 1943 CREDIT Chiura Obata Courtesy of Kimi Kodani Hill DATE March 13, 1943 |
