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Title
Bye Bye Daddy
Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1942-1945
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 left corner: H. Sugimoto, Ark. Written on back, top center: Bye-Bye Daddy, 22" x 18"
Stretched and framed, gold leaf frame. Image of Nisei soldier in brown uniform and service cap looking over left shoulder bidding his family farewell as he leaves camp with one brown bag to join the war. In left foreground a young girl in a brownish white top waves her right hand; right, a woman in greyish white dress holds a baby dressed in white, while waving with her right hand. The baby waves an small American flag with its right hand. A guard house is partially visible on right with letters, "GAR." A red lettered stop sign and a soldier armed with a bayonet bars the family from leaving. Barbed wire fences line the path receding into distance. A guard tower stands center background.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas Arkansas
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2m3n98r4
92.97.131
Subject
Concentration camps
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Soldiers
Bayonets
Families
American flag
Watchtowers
Farewells
Signs
Nisei
Fathers
Place
Arkansas

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