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[Stepping out of showers, over chlorine foot basins, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Maker
Miné Okubo
(1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.78
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with shoulder length hair, Mine Okubo, steps over foot bath at entrance of shower room at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in a slip and shoes, Mine straddles rectangular pool of chlorine water at right; black vertical line indicates where right wall of entrance begins; a towel hangs from her proper left arm. A little boy stands on a bench next to a woman in a floral apron washing her feet in a basin to the left of entrance. There is a sign, "Foot wash for foot only."
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Uemura, Susan Hashizume
1953-1954