Title:
Easter in Camp Jerome
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1942
Identifier:
92.97.66
Format:
painting
oil on canvas, mounted on board
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, lower left corner, title in blue ink: H. Sugimoto, Easter in Camp Jerome. Written on back, left center:
Easter in Jerome Camp
Description:
Oil on canvas mounted on masonite. Still life of purple, red and white striped basket of easter eggs (red, blue, yellow) sitting
on top paper, "Arkansas," on a wooden table. A Bible sits to the right of the basket and a blue egg to the left. White easter
lilies peek out behind the wooden table, background left. Background right, a view of the barracks and watchtower.
Historical Note:
Sugimoto was baptized in the 1920s and sustained a deep faith for the rest of his life. He wrote, "Dislocation, moving from
one place to another, was indeed depressing and trying...this condition could be persevered by looking up and knowing that
Christ had His heavy cross to bear." (Henry Sugimoto, ca. 1981, from personal papers archived at the Japanese American National
Museum)
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Easter
Easter eggs
Bible
Easter lily
Barracks