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[Summertime heat and horseflies, 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 number2007.62.107
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, sits at a desk inside her living quarters, a converted horse stall, drawing, as two men doze, outside on the porch. They are covered with horseflies that arrive with the warm weather and accompanying smell of manure. Sleeping man in checkered cap sits on floor of the porch to the left of open doorway, while a shirtless man in eyeglasses nods off on a chair below stall marker "50" to right of doorway. Mine is visible behind partially drawn curtain.
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Mitsuoka, Norio
ca. 1947-1948