Title:
The 3rd winter in Topaz
Creator/Contributor:
Hibi, Hisako
Date:
1/1/1944
Identifier:
96.601.37
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Description:
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of barracks which are snow covered with smoke coming from the chimneys. There is one man
walking and utility poles line the snow covered street.
Historical Note:
In this painting Hisako Hibi seems to have resolved some of the compositional and perspectival issues she was grappling with
in other works. She gives us a view of the barracks from a sharp profile, so that the edges of the roofs recede into space.
The electrical poles echo the row of barracks providing a kind of pathway between the poles and buildings. Snow covers the
rooftops and ground completely. The scene is a quiet one with only three lone figures dotting the landscape. Smoke rises
from the chimneys of buildings at the right, perhaps hinting at the unseen activity within the barracks.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Topaz | barracks | mountain | man | snow