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Title
Watercolor depicting Poston Relocation Center barracks
Creator
Yoshizumi, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued
1943
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 this watercolor 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
12 x 9 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
2800
RGB
24 Bit
4200 x 3164
38
Tiff
Identifier
jc15a-03
ark:/13030/kt2t1nc7hk
1496.JPG
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/1480
Subject
Concentration camps--Arizona
Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Prisoners as artists
Watercolor painting
Barracks
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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