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Title: Untitled (Coal Miners)
Creator: Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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: H. Sugimoto, 84
Split imagery of life in coal mine and world above. One man shovels coal, right foreground, while another raises a pickaxe above coal in wall on left. Behind them one man pushes a coal bin on tracks, right midground, as a man walks with a pickaxe and bucket in tunnel. All men are dressed in brown pants, black boots, cap and blue vest over tan shirt. A lamp shines light from above. At top, cloud-like image of trees and coal mill with sign, "Coal Mine," under sunny sky. Stretched and framed, marker on canvas.
Type: image
Format: Painting oil and marker on canvas
Form/Genre: painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8x0nb3dt
92.97.111
Subject: Coal mines
Coal miners
Coal mining
Picks (tools)
Shovels
Buildings
Trees

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