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Title: Susie Ironing Camp Room
Creator: Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 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: Sugimoto. Written on back: Susie Ironing Camp Room/21 1/2" x 18"
A woman, Susie Sugimoto, irons a red piece of material with a flatiron in right foreground, while her husband, Henry Sugimoto, watches her over his right shoulder with a paintbrush poised in his left hand above a canvas in the background left. Susie's hair is pulled back and she wears a white apron over a blue spotted yellow dress. Sugimoto is dressed in blue and is seated on a crate. Stretched and framed.
Type: image
Format: Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre: painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf387002v8
92.97.84
Subject: Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Sugimoto, Susie Tagawa
Sugimoto, Henry
Women
Men
Painting (image-making)
Irons (Pressing)
Laundry
Painters (artists)
Self-portraits
Place: Denson, Ark.

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