About this artwork
Shoji Osato began his career as a newspaper photographer in Nebraska before relocating in 1925 to Chicago, where he opened his own studio. Here, he photographed the Art Institute lions on a foggy day, framing them dramatically against the Chicago skyline.
When the Chicago World’s Fair opened in 1933, Osato quit photography to operate a tea shop in the newly constructed Japanese garden in Jackson Park, where the Japanese-built Phoenix Pavilion from the 1893 Fair had been relocated. In 1942 the federal government incarcer-ated him as an “enemy alien” for several months; unlike his fellow Japanese Chicagoan Harry K. Shigeta, Osato never returned to photography.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Shoji Osato
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Title
- Chicago
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1926
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 22.9 × 17.8 cm (9 × 7 in.); frame: 35.6 × 29.3 cm (14 × 11 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Blumberg-Emmerich Family Trust
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Reference Number
- 2023.2818
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