Title:
Making Our Mattress
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1975
Identifier:
92.97.2
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
New York, N.Y.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: Henry Sugimoto
Description:
Framed and stretched. Wood frame is painted gold, wood showing through in streaks. Image of families stuffing their mattresses
with hay. In the foreground, before a large pile of hay on the left, a man in denim overalls, blue shirt, red handkerchief
in back pocket, straw hat, with his back to the viewer, and a woman in green and blue dress, white apron, and straw hat stuff
a mattress with the help of a boy in blue shorts and black and grey striped shirt. Behind them, to the right, a woman dressed
in a blue and white dress, with white scarf and a boy in brown shorts and black and white striped shirt stuff a mattress.
Behind the haystack a man in blue jeans, light blue shirt walks away with a stuffed mattress over his right shoulder, as a
woman in blue and white dress with a yellow scarf approaches the hay from the right carrying a mattress and holding the hand
of a young girl in a yellow and white dress. Further back, walking out of the image on the left, a man in blue jeans, light
blue shirt, and straw hat, woman in light blue and white dress carry a mattress between them. In the background stand two
barracks in front of a barbed wire fence and trees.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Men
Women
Children
Hay
Mattresses
Barracks