Title:
Untitled (Gambling House Chinatown)
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
c. 1975
Identifier:
92.97.117
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
New York, N.Y.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: H. Sugimoto
Description:
Stretched and unframed. Men gambling in Chinatown. Four men sit and smoke at a large orange/tan rectangular table with circular
objects in front of them while a Chinese man separates two tiles from a pile using a stick. One man stands at the top corner
of the table smoking and watching the game. A mustached Chinese man faces the viewer in the lower right corner. In the background
left a Chinese man in black leans forward on a bench smoking a pipe under a window. Seated at a small table, right, a Chinese
man watches another man in shirtsleeves sign some papers. Another man stands behind the gambler smoking. At the back a Chinese
man opens a green door with peephole into the red room with wooden floors. A man enters the room from the street where signs
with Chinese characters are visible. A yellow strip with three Chinese characters, "Bakapyo", hangs next to a large flesh
colored sign that reads, "Chungking" over Chinese characters. All the Chinese men wear black Mao jackets!
and pants and have queues. The gamblers are in blue, tan or brown.
Subject:
Gambling
Men
Gamblers
Chinese
Japanese
Clothing
China
Queue (braid)
Chinatown (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Smoking