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Title
Self Portrait in Camp
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
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Description
Stretched and framed. Portrait of Sugimoto, the artist, surrounded by his paintings. Dressed in a white short-sleeve, collared shirt with a pink item in left pocket and wearing a black beret, Sugimoto looks directly at viewer over his left shoulder. He holds a palette with a palette cup in his right hand, facing a canvas with his signature, "H. Sugimoto." A framed still life and landscape hang in the background. Another painting sits in the back.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas United States
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2x0n99cw
92.97.5
Subject
Concentration camps
Men
Berets
Sugimoto, Henry
Self-portraits
Place
United States

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