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Title
Untitled (Rohwer Camp, Block 29 or Rohwer Camp)
Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1944
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: H. Sugimoto, Rohwer Camp
Mounted on board, unframed. An American flag flies from a flagpole in the center. To the right is a garden of giant sunflowers within a white picket fence. In the foreground is a sign that reads, "Block 29." To the left of the flagpole, a man in a yellow shirt works with some large cans or drums in front of the barracks in the background. A woman in a blue dress and white apron walks down a path on the left, carrying a yellow basket (?).
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas, mounted on board Rohwer, Ark.
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf967nb3jm
92.97.60
Subject
Concentration Camps, Rohwer
Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Arkansas
Sunflowers
Men
Women
Barracks
Place
Rohwer, Ark.

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