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Title: Jerome Camp
Creator: Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Publication Information: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributing Institution: Japanese American National Museum
Collection: Sugimoto (Henry) Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Painted at Jerome Camp, 1943. Written on back, top left corner: Jerome Camp, 21 1/2" x 18"
Stretched and framed. Large pond or swamp with wooden planks and debris in foreground. Tall grasses stand in the midground. Rows of barracks separated by a road stand in the distance.
"Staying in the camp, I had no chance of contact with the outside...Sometimes I went into the wooded area within the confines of the camp. I created imaginary landscapes of Arkansas, beautiful autumn scenes...[of the] surrounding [area], as much as I could see from the camp." (From a 1968 interview with Henry Sugimoto by Boris Musich)
Type: image
Format: Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre: painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf329002nv
92.97.65
Subject: Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Barracks
Swamps
Place: Denson, Ark.

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