Title:
A Night
Creator/Contributor:
Hibi, Hisako
Date:
1/1/1944
Identifier:
96.601.22
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Description:
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of very dark barracks with a mountain in the background.
Historical Note:
This painting is the only known night scene Hisako Hibi painted while at Topaz concentration camp. A few barracks are visible
in the distance, discernible in the darkness only by the glow of lights from the barrack interiors. The structures are framed
by the sharp geometric outline of the mountain range in the background. The darkness overwhelms and smothers the image of
camp. Even the yellow lights of the buildings are only dim suggestions of activity in this otherwise somber scene. Hibi
most likely completely imagined this scene given the restrictions that prohibited internees from roaming the camp grounds
at night.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Topaz | barracks | mountain