Watercolor on paper, 1958, signed and dated at lower left, mounted in a wood frame under glass.

Sheet size 38 x 24 1/2 in.; Frame dimensions 41 1/8 x 27 3/4 in.

Tara Yamamoto was born in California to a wealthy Japanese landlord and builder. At the age of six, he was taken to live in Japan, where he remained until age 19. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1946, he attended Santa Monica City College where he was awarded a Grand Prize for a painting. From 1950 to 1952 he studied at the Art Student's League in New York under Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kanter, Byron Browne, and Vaclav Vyrlacil. Afterward, he attended the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York. He was awarded the John Sloan Memorial Fellowship at the Art Students' League in New York and the Edward G. McDowell Traveling Fellowship. Under the latter, he studied in Europe before working on and off at the McDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire from 1955 to 1957. He settled and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts from the 1950s until his death in 1994.

Toning and scattered areas of spotting and creasing to the paper, minor losses to the corners.