Title:
Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1943
Identifier:
92.97.130
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed, front, BLC: H. Sugimoto. Written on back: Nisei Babies in (babwired camp) [crossed out]/Concetration [sic] Camp/22
1/2" x 18"
Description:
Stretched and framed. Five faceless black haired babies in diapers on white sheet; one stands, holding up small American flag
in right hand; one seated behind him salutes. A soldier in tan uniform and black MP arm band carries a rifle with bayonet
in left foreground. A barbed-wire fence separates him from and surrounds the babies. A guard tower stands next to a bare tree
in right background under a dark sky.
Subject:
Concentration camps
Infants
Soldiers
Barbed wire
Fences