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Title
Family in Camp Room (Family in Jerome Camp)
Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1942
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 right corner: Henry Sugimoto. Written on back: 30 1/2" x 24"/Family in Camp Room
Family of four in a room with an old-style woodburning stove. A boy in red writes on a sheet of paper while a girl in green reads a book as they sit facing the viewer at table in the foreground right. At left, a woman sits on a stool facing the stove with her back to the viewer. She is dressed in a green jacket and brown skirt. On the other side of the stove, behind the children, a man with a mustache reads the newspsper. A steaming kettle sits on the black stove. Behind the man, on the right, is a small American flag, an alarm clock, a photograph and a vase with red flowers sitting on a mantel. In the background left, a broom leans against the wall, bristles upward. Stretched and framed.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7f59n8w4
92.97.88
Subject
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Families
Studying
Children
Parents
Concentration camp life
Place
Denson, Ark.

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