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Title
Making Our Mattress
Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1975
Publication Information
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributing Institution
Japanese American National Museum
Collection
Sugimoto (Henry) Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: Henry Sugimoto
Framed and stretched. Wood frame is painted gold, wood showing through in streaks. Image of families stuffing their mattresses with hay. In the foreground, before a large pile of hay on the left, a man in denim overalls, blue shirt, red handkerchief in back pocket, straw hat, with his back to the viewer, and a woman in green and blue dress, white apron, and straw hat stuff a mattress with the help of a boy in blue shorts and black and grey striped shirt. Behind them, to the right, a woman dressed in a blue and white dress, with white scarf and a boy in brown shorts and black and white striped shirt stuff a mattress. Behind the haystack a man in blue jeans, light blue shirt walks away with a stuffed mattress over his right shoulder, as a woman in blue and white dress with a yellow scarf approaches the hay from the right carrying a mattress and holding the hand of a young girl in a yellow and white dress. Further back, walking out of the image on the left, a man in blue jeans, light blue shirt, and straw hat, woman in light blue and white dress carry a mattress between them. In the background stand two barracks in front of a barbed wire fence and trees.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas New York, N.Y.
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf1k4001bc
92.97.2
Subject
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Men
Women
Children
Hay
Mattresses
Barracks
Place
New York, N.Y.

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