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Documentary, "our washroom, Jerome camp"
Maker
Henry Sugimoto
(American, 1900 - 1990)
Date1942
Mediumoil, canvas
DimensionsH: 22.75 in, W: 31.75 in, Frame: 24 x 33 x 1.25 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum
Object number92.97.47
DescriptionStretched and framed.;Women and man doing laundry at four four-segmented communal sinks. At one sink, a child takes a bath, facing the viewer, next to a woman wearing a blue polka dotted blouse with tan apron who is doing laundry with her back to the viewer. A girl in green bends over washing her hair in the segment opposite. An old man in undershirt wrings clothes in the sink to the right. A woman scrubs on a washboard in the sink behind him. The fourth sink with sign, "Food Utensial [sic] Only," is empty in upper left. In left foreground, washboard, baskets and children's slippers. A woman and child enter the washroom through a door in rear.