Title:
Documentary, In Winter of Jerome Camp (Our Winter in Jerome Camp)
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1943
Identifier:
92.97.90
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Denson, Ark.
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto, Jerome, 1943. Written on back, top center: Documentary, In Winter of Jerome
Camp, 32 1/2 x 23 1/2, by Henry Sugimoto
Description:
Stretched and framed. Wood frame with gold streaks showing through. Family of three pushes a wheelbarrow full of wood to be
used to warm their barracks. In the foreground, a girl in red sailor top, short black pleated skirt and white boots walks
along leftside of wheelbarrow with her back to the viewer, holding the left handle in her right hand and pointing in front
of it at an obstruction with the other. At right, man in green cap and jacket with brown pants and boots grips handles and
pushes wheelbarrow stacked with logs forward toward the left. On the opposite side of the wheelbarrow from the girl, a woman
in blue and yellow wearing a kerchief over her hair pulls the wheelbarrow along. In the background barracks with smoke from
chimneys are visible. Sky is dark.
Historical Note:
While most of the other camps relied on coal for heat, Jerome inmates chopped and gathered wood from the surrounding area
to help warm their barracks.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Winter
Wheelbarrows