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As reported in the Nichi Bei Times (left) via the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission has voted to designate Japanese-American artist Chiura Obata’s former studio on Telegraph Avenue a landmark.

Though the Commission didn’t feel that the structure itself was worthy of notice, the building’s cultural significance rendered it worthy of landmark status.

Obata, who died in 1975,  had a successful career as a painter and was a faculty member in the Art Department at UC Berkeley from 1932 to 1953.

Read the full landmarking story here.

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