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painting
Date1942-1943
Mediumoil, wood, varnish
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 17 1/8 in, D: .75 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Diane Hiraide Yanohira
Object number93.83.2
Description1 oil painting of the Santa Fe Justice Department Camp on piece of wood by an Issei. Paint colors used: red, white, green, blue, yellow-green. In the foreground is a light yellow rooster and chicken with 4 chicks. In the background are several barracks and various buildings, 1 smoke stack, trees, cactuses, an orange mountain range and orange dirt and smoke stack. Japanese text in white paint in bottom left corner that reads, "Santa Fe Nihonjin Shuyosho Nyusho Kinen."
Okubo, Benji
Fukuhara, Henry
Tasaki, Katherine
1943