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Title
Watch Tower
Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1943
Publication Information
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributing Institution
Japanese American National Museum
Collection
Sugimoto (Henry) Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, top center: Watch Tower, 15 1/2 x 13 1/2
Stretched and framed. A watchtower is visible through a stand of four trees in midground left. In the foreground a large branch lays in the grass, center ; a stump stands at left in front of the barbed wire fence that spans the image. Three tall trees stand in the right foreground on one side of the fence while one tree stands on the other side near the watchtower. Across a short open area tall grasses front dark blue-green trees in the background. The sky is cloudy.
Type
image
Format
Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre
painting
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8m3nb32p
92.97.101
Subject
Concentration Camps, Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)
Arkansas
Trees
Fences
Place
Denson, Ark.

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