Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Untitled
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Sugimoto, Henry
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Title:
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Untitled
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Collection Title Date:
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1928-1990
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Date:
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c. 1975
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Place of Origin/Discovery:
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New York, N.Y.
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Materials:
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oil on canvas
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Current Location:
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Japanese American National Museum
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Address:
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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Object ID:
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92.97.115
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Provenance:
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Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American
National Museum
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Object Type:
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Painting
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Heading:
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Inscription
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Notes:
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Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto
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Heading:
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Description
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Notes:
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Unstretched and unframed. Formerly stapled onto 92.97.117. Split image of Buddhist and Christian couples praying. Scene on left, a man in tan shirt holds hands in gassho (put hands together and bow head) while holding juzu (Buddhist prayer beads) next to a woman in brown. Both sit with their backs to the viewer facing a table with a blue runner, a bowl of fruit and black bowl of burning incense. Above it floats an image of a Bodhisattva, Yakushinyorai, swathed in robes in a golden oval in a field of blue. To the left, a tan strip of kanji, "Namu Amidabutsu." Scene on right, a man in blue shirt folds his hands in front of his face as he leans against a table covered by a white cloth, a Bible (Seisho) in front of him, next to a woman in brown. Both sit turned three quarters away from the viewer facing a table with a tan triangle cloth under a bowl of red flowers. Above it, a golden cross stands in a blue oval against a tan field. To the right, a blue strip of Japanese writi!
ng, "Kami wa Ai nari (God is love)."
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf6199n7v6
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