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The evacuee
Maker
Ueyama, Tokio
(1889 - 1954)
Date1942
Mediumoil, canvas, wood
DimensionsH: 24 in, W: 30.25 in, Frame: 28.5 x 34.5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Kayoko Tsukada
Object number92.20.3
DescriptionPortrait of a woman (Suye Ueyama) in long blue dress reclining in wood frame folding chair as she crochets in front of a doorway opening out on sunlit exterior of barracks in Santa Anita Assembly Center in Arcadia, California. The sunlight through open curtained doorway provides natural lighting for the woman as she looks down at her crocheting, facing left. Her hair is pulled back neatly at the back of her head. She wears white sandals over dark socks. A ball of yarn sits in a basket near her feet, next to a make-shift table with a tin cup and a black handled pot on the right. A pair of sandals rests on doorframe, BL. Shade of barracks extends a short distance outside. Partial view of one barracks in direct sunlight, left. Row of three barracks in distance, R. Gold-painted wood frame.;Stretched and framed.
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