Title:
In March
Creator/Contributor:
Hibi, Hisako
Date:
3/1/1943
Identifier:
96.601.14
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Description:
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of a man and child, three woman and another child by a tree in the snow. There are barracks
and smoke and mountains in the background.
Historical Note:
This is another of Hisako Hibi's winter landscapes in which she depicts an open space inhabited by a few figures, bordered
by rows of barracks in the background. The snow-covered mountain peak rises quite dramatically behind the barracks. Three
girls appear at the left, while a man grasping the hand of a small child walks ahead of them. Another solitary figure stands
in the distance. Perhaps they are all walking to or from the camp school, a system that employed both internees as well as
teachers and administrators from the outside.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Topaz | barracks | mountain | people | tree