After the Storm
Maker
Hiromu Kira
(American, 1898 - 1991)
ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS
Dateca. 1925
Mediumsilver print
Dimensions9 5/8 x 11 13/16 in. (24.4 x 30 cm.)
InscribedInscribed on recto of mount: After the Storm; in ink on verso of mount: After the Storm' Hiromu Kira, Mr., 514 Main St., Seattle, Wash. U.S.A.; on verso of mount in graphite: 10[circled] 242 E. First Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
Signed on recto of mount: H. Kira, A.R.P.S.
Label: Seattle Salon 1925; Frederick and Nelso Salon 1925; Pittsburgh Salon 1925; Bridge of Allan Salon 1926
Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Label TextPhotographer Hiromu Kira (1898-1991) was born in Hawaii, educated in Japan, and in 1916 settled in the Pacific Northwest. He was a founding member of the Seattle Camera Club and part of the artistic community of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo in the 1920s and 30s. After the Storm was made in Seattle, where the artist pursued a Pictorialist aesthetic, and before he developed his modernist approach after moving to Los Angeles in 1926.
Status
Not on viewObject number86.30.1
Arthur Rothstein
1936
Object number: 86.1.3
Mark Klett
1986
Object number: 94.22.2