Title:
Died in Battlefield
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1943
Identifier:
92.97.95
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, left center: "Died in Battlefield" / 32" x 26"
Description:
Stretched and framed. Wooden frame with gold streaks showing through. Image of a U.S. Amy officer presenting a folded American
flag for a soldier killed in action to deceased's wife or mother who is interned in a concentration camp in the United States.
At left, a Caucasian man in tan uniform and white gloves bends down to present folded triangle flag of white stars on blue
field to woman in white-trimmed black dress with hat seated on wooden seat at right. A little boy dressed in black and yellow
striped shirt and tan shorts stands between them. All eyes are focused on the flag. A translucent bubble with an image of
the deceased soldier in uniform saluting floats above the woman and boy. In the background behind them, an American flag flies
in front of a mess hall next to a garden of giant sunflowers. An old man bent with age walks with a cane on a path between
a barracks on left and the mess hall on right toward the viewer. In the distance a watchtower with a soldier on!
duty is visible above the barracks under a golden blue sky.
Subject:
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Concentration camps
Soldiers
Women
Boys
World War, 1939-1945
Casualties
Saluting
Aged persons