Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Sugimoto, Henry
Title:
Jerome Camp Swamp
Collection Title Date:
1928-1990
Date:
1943
Place of Origin/Discovery:
Denson, Ark.
Materials:
oil on canvas
Current Location:
Japanese American National Museum
Address:
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Object ID:
92.97.129
Provenance:
Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American
National Museum
Object Type:
Painting
Heading:
Inscription
Notes:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Henry Sugimoto, 1943 ; Bottom right corner: Painted at Jerome Camp. Written on back, top center: Jerome Camp Swamp, 22" x 18"
Heading:
Description
Notes:
Stretched and framed View of swamp and Jerome camp. In the foreground a culvert opens into a reflecting pool of standing water surrounded by tall dry grasses. At midground a horizontal path spans the image. A water filled ditch with plank walkways recedes to vanishing point, background left. Next to it, yellow and red laundry hang in open area between ditch and rows of barracks which recede to vanishing point left under a grey sky.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf187001g g

Jerome Camp Swamp