Henry Sketching Camp Jerome
Sugimoto, Henry
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painting
Denson, Ark.,
ca. 1943 (92.97.32) Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum |
Description
Stretched and unframed.
In the lower left foreground, seated in the grass with his back to the viewer, Henry Sugimoto works on a canvas set on an easel. He is dressed in brown pants, white shirt and greyish hat. In the midground are three trees and green shrubbery with some red foliage. In the middleground, four barn-shaped warehouses stand to the left, next to three barracks with a smokestack at the far right.
Inscription
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: H. Sugimoto
Written on back, left corner: "Henry is Sketching" / Camp Jerome
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