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Attacked Pearl Harber (Attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii)
Maker
Henry Sugimoto
(American, 1900 - 1990)
Date1947
Mediumoil, canvas
DimensionsH: 22.5 in, W: 19 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum
Object number92.97.74
DescriptionFamily reacting to news of Pearl Harbor attack. Older man, with back to the viewer, sits at table bent over a newspaper reading about the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. He wears a brown jacket and glasses and has his left hand on the back of his head. A woman in green with white collar faces him across the red/white checked tablecloth. In the background a younger man sits at a desk next to a lamp before a window, with his back to the viewer, and listens to the radio with his left hand on the back of his head. He wears a white sweater with two purple stripes at the biceps.;Stretched and framed.
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Hirasaki, Tetsuzo
1943
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