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drawing
H: 16.75 in, W: 11 in
paper
pencil
Exhibition(s):
Subject Tags
Art
Back (Anatomy)
Concentration Camps, Heart Mountain
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans
Life drawings
Men
Stoves
Study and teaching
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Poor Benjii on the model stand
Estelle Ishigo [bio]
Heart Mountain, Wyo.,
1942-1945
(94.195.7A)
Japanese American National Museum
Estelle Ishigo Collection
Description
1 drawing on paper ; 16.75 x 11 in. | Pencil sketch of male, most likely fellow artist Benji Okubo, dressed in t-shirt, long pants and shoes standing with back to viewer ; right leg is bent and resting on chair seat ; right arm is raised and bent with hand at back of head ; left arm is not visible ; head is bent and angled to right. Partial image of brick wall in background ; potbelly stove partially visible, right center.
Inscription
Written in pencil, lower left corner: Poor Benjii on the model stand
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection
must be submitted to the Hirasaki National Resource Center
at the Japanese American National Museum (hnrc@janm.org).
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