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Description
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of a child carrying an umbrella walking towards barracks. There are piles of snow off to the side of them. Smoke comes from a stack in the distance. In this painting Hisako Hibi portrays a scene of Topaz concentration camp after a storm. Much of the snow has already melted, creating puddles and a slushy mud ground. A child with an umbrella walks along a plank laid over the slush, presumably to get back to one of the barracks at the left of the painting. The work of shoveling the snow and slush away from the barracks has already been accomplished. In the center of the canvas is a mound of snow and slush as evidence of this work. Hibi creates the sense of muddy ground with a layering of light washes of color. Beneath the plank is a puddle of water, discernible mostly by the reflection of the barrack rooftop on the surface. A large chimney in the background spews a chain of black smoke into the hazy sky.
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