Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Attacked Pearl Harber (Attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii))
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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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Attacked Pearl Harber (Attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii))
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Collection Title Date:
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1928-1990
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Date:
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ca. 1947
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Place of Origin/Discovery:
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California
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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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92.97.74
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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, Attacked Pearl Harber [sic] Hawaii. Written on back: Attacked Pearl Harbor/22" x 18"
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Heading:
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Description
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Notes:
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Stretched and framed. Family reacting to news of Pearl Harbor attack. Older man, with back to the viewer, sits at table bent over a newspaper reading about the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. He wears a brown jacket and glasses and has his left hand on the back of his head. A woman in green with white collar faces him across the red/white checked tablecloth. In the background a younger man sits at a desk next to a lamp before a window, with his back to the viewer, and listens to the radio with his left hand on the back of his head. He wears a white sweater with two purple stripes at the biceps.
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Heading:
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Historical Note
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Notes:
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"I...turned on the radio and heard them say, 'A Jap bomber squadron has bombed Pearl Harbor; there are many casualties, and many American battleships have been destroyed....What was going to become of us Japanese? What were we to do?" (From Henry Sugimoto's diaries.)
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Notes:
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When the United States entered World War II, the lives of many Japanese Americans were torn apart. Sugimoto's work after 1941 shows a dramatic transition from landscapes and still-life paintings to powerful narratives focusing on this experience.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf5n39n7m6
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