Documentary, "our washroom, Jerome camp"
Sugimoto, Henry
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painting
Denson, Ark.,
1942 (92.97.47) Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum Enlarge Image (87.8KB) |
Description
Stretched and framed.
Women and man doing laundry at four four-segmented communal sinks. At one sink, a child takes a bath, facing the viewer, next to a woman wearing a blue polka dotted blouse with tan apron who is doing laundry with her back to the viewer. A girl in green bends over washing her hair in the segment opposite. An old man in undershirt wrings clothes in the sink to the right. A woman scrubs on a washboard in the sink behind him. The fourth sink with sign, "Food Utensial [sic] Only," is empty in upper left. In left foreground, washboard, baskets and children's slippers. A woman and child enter the washroom through a door in rear.
Inscription
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Jerome Camp 1942 ; upper right corner: H. Sugimoto
Written on back, top center: Documentary, Our Wash Room, Jerome Camp, by Henry Sugimoto, 1942 ; left center: 32" x 23"
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