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Title
Girls Making Snowman (Girls Making a Snowman in Jerome Camp)
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
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Description
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Painted at Jerome Camp, 1943 ; bottom center: Jerome Camp Girls ; bottom right corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, top center: "Girls Making Snowman" / 24" x 20"
Stretched and framed. Two girls build a snowman in wintry scene of Jerome camp. One girl stands with her hands to her mouth on the right, while another girl crouches in front of a small snowman with her back to the viewer, gazing up at the other girl. A snow covered green dustpan lies at her feet. Both girls have cropped hair and are dressed in red tops, blue pants, black boots and brown gloves. The snowman has a simple face of two eyes, eyebrows, straight mouth, and two nostrils. The porch and steps of a barracks is visible at left. A snow covered bush stands in the right foreground. Three barracks are visible in the background with snow laden roofs and smoking chimneys.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6s20057m
92.97.96
Subject
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Girls
Winter
Snow
Snowmen
Place
Denson, Ark.

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