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Title: Jerome Camp Swamp
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: Henry Sugimoto, 1943 ; Bottom right corner: Painted at Jerome Camp. Written on back, top center: Jerome Camp Swamp, 22" x 18"
Stretched and framed View of swamp and Jerome camp. In the foreground a culvert opens into a reflecting pool of standing water surrounded by tall dry grasses. At midground a horizontal path spans the image. A water filled ditch with plank walkways recedes to vanishing point, background left. Next to it, yellow and red laundry hang in open area between ditch and rows of barracks which recede to vanishing point left under a grey sky.
Type: image
Format: Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre: painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf187001gg
92.97.129
Subject: Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Swamps
Culverts
Laundry
Barracks
Ditches
Place: Denson, Ark.

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