Title:
Untitled ("No Japs Wanted")
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1965
Identifier:
92.97.122
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
New York, N.Y.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom right corner: H. Sugimoto
Description:
Stretched and framed. Formerly stapled to paintings 92.97.120-.124. A Japanese family of four stands in front of anti-Japanese
sign, "No Japs Wanted." A bearded man in blue overalls grasps his straw hat to his chest as he gazes upward to the left. Behind
him, a large white sign, "No Japs Wanted/California," with drawings of a skull and a Japanese caricature with captions, "
You get out" and "You rats," stands before a fence and trees in the background. Standing at his side on the right, a little
girl in a green and white dress looks up to the left while holding a blue pail and small rake. In the foreground left, a woman
carrying a small child on her back covers her eyes with her right hand and frowns. She wears a blue dress with white trim
and apron. The child is in green and white. A blue wheelbarrow holding a broom, a shovel and basket with a bundle and bottle
stands at bottom center.
Subject:
Propaganda, Anti-Japanese
Japanese
California
Wheelbarrows
Caricatures and cartoons