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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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