Title:
Documentary, "Our Washroom, Jerome Camp"
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
1942
Identifier:
92.97.47
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Jerome Camp 1942 ; upper right corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, top center: Documentary,
Our Wash Room, Jerome Camp, by Henry Sugimoto, 1942 ; left center: 32" x 23"
Description:
Women and man doing laundry at four segmented communal sinks. At one sink, a child takes a bath, facing the viewer, next to
a woman wearing a blue polka dotted blouse with tan apron who is doing laundry with her back to the viewer. A girl in green
bends over washing her hair in the segment opposite. An old man in undershirt wrings clothes in the sink to the right. A woman
scrubs on a washboard in the sink behind him. The fourth sink with sign, "Food Utensial [sic] Only," is empty in upper left.
In left foreground, washboard, baskets and children's slippers. A woman and child enter the washroom through a door in rear.
Stretched and framed.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Laundry
Washboards
Men
Women
Children