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Title
Art panel made in Poston Relocatoin Center with watercolor paintings on both sides
Creator
Yoshizumi, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued
1941/1946
Publication Information
California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives
Contributing Institution
California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection
Japanese American Archival Collection
Rights Information
2004
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or photographs must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
Harry Yoshizumi made these watercolor paintings in art class at Poston II. Viola Kerber, teacher circa 1943/44, High School, Poston Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona. Harry Yoshizumi (1922- ) was born in Watsonville, California and incarcerated in Poston, where he studied art. After the war he studied at the Art Students League, the California School of Fine Arts, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1965 Yoshizumi gave up painting and worked at IBM for over twenty-five years.
Format
24 x 17 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
RGB
24 Bit
Tiff
Identifier
jc15a-05
ark:/13030/kt2h4nc5m6
1599.cpd
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/1583
Subject
Concentration camps--Arizona
Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Watercolor painting
Prisoners as artists
Yoshizumi, Harry
Relation
From the Japanese American Archival Collection. MSS-94/01. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives

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