Title:
Bye Bye Daddy
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1942-1945
Identifier:
92.97.131
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Arkansas
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto, Ark. Written on back, top center: Bye-Bye Daddy, 22" x 18"
Description:
Stretched and framed, gold leaf frame. Image of Nisei soldier in brown uniform and service cap looking over left shoulder
bidding his family farewell as he leaves camp with one brown bag to join the war. In left foreground a young girl in a brownish
white top waves her right hand; right, a woman in greyish white dress holds a baby dressed in white, while waving with her
right hand. The baby waves an small American flag with its right hand. A guard house is partially visible on right with letters,
"GAR." A red lettered stop sign and a soldier armed with a bayonet bars the family from leaving. Barbed wire fences line the
path receding into distance. A guard tower stands center background.
Subject:
Concentration camps
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Soldiers
Bayonets
Families
American flag
Watchtowers
Farewells
Signs
Nisei
Fathers