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Title
Watercolor depicting an aerial view of Poston Relocation Center at dusk
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
Watercolor by Harry Yoshizumi depicting an aerial view of Poston Relocation Center at dusk. On the left and center are the outdoor theatre; on the right are rows of barracks and a watch tower. Mountain looms in the background. Art Class: Viola Kerber, teacher circa 1943/44, Camp II. High School, Poston Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona. Harry Yoshizumi studied art in Poston and attended the Art Students League, the California School of Fine Arts, and the California College of Arts and Crafts after the war. In 1965, he gave up painting and worked at IBM for over twenty-five years.
Format
16 x 23 in.
color slide
1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
Epson Expression 1600
Photoshop 7.0
None
2800
RGB
24 Bit
4200 x 2960
33.8
Tiff
Identifier
jc15a-04
ark:/13030/kt8m3nd0tv
900.jpg
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/jaac/id/899
Subject
Japanese American art
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
Mountains--Arizona
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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