Title:
Jerome Camp
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
1943
Identifier:
92.97.65
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Painted at Jerome Camp, 1943. Written on back, top left corner: Jerome Camp, 21 1/2"
x 18"
Description:
Stretched and framed. Large pond or swamp with wooden planks and debris in foreground. Tall grasses stand in the midground.
Rows of barracks separated by a road stand in the distance.
Historical Note:
"Staying in the camp, I had no chance of contact with the outside...Sometimes I went into the wooded area within the confines
of the camp. I created imaginary landscapes of Arkansas, beautiful autumn scenes...[of the] surrounding [area], as much as
I could see from the camp." (From a 1968 interview with Henry Sugimoto by Boris Musich)
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Barracks
Swamps