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Innocent Babies (Nisei)
Maker
Henry Sugimoto
(American, 1900 - 1990)
Date1965
Mediumpaper
Dimensions13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Madeleine Sugimoto
Object number2015.2.90
DescriptionBlack and white woodblock print. This print depicts 7 babies wearing diapers, one of which stands holding an American flag, and another sits in the bottom right corner holding the Japanese flag. A guard carrying a gun walks alongside barbed wire in the bottom left corner. He wears an arm band with the letters "MP" on his right arm. A large sign in the background reads "Jerome Relocation Center." Signed H. Sugimoto. 25 copies. Printed on different types of paper with sizes varying slightly. One of the prints is matted.
Henry Sugimoto