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Eight showers and four tubs for eighty women
Maker
Ishigo, Estelle
(1899 - 1990)
Date1943
Mediumpencil, paper
DimensionsH: 8 in, W: 5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineJapanese American National Museum
Object number94.195.24I
Description1 drawing on paper ; image 5.75 x 3.5 in., on sheet 7.875 x 5 in.;Pencil drawing of women and girl undressing and showering in women's bathing facility. Three women and a girl undress behind a black heating stove with pipe extending to ceiling in foreground and next to a pair of shoes and a bench on left edge. A nude woman holding a towel walks toward open shower stalls on right ; one woman is showering in a stall. Another woman sits in a bathtub in background where tubs are located in open stalls. Wooden racks on ground of stalls. One light bulb top left.
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1942
1942
Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948
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