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Art class, 7:30 PM, 2-15-43
Art class, 7:30 PM, 2-15-43
Art class, 7:30 PM, 2-15-43

Art class, 7:30 PM, 2-15-43

Maker (1907 - 1985)
Date1943
Mediumink, paper, laminate
DimensionsH: 6 in, W: 9.5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of June Hoshida Honma, Sandra Hoshida and Carole Hoshida Kanada
Object number97.106.1EQ
DescriptionInk sketch of fifteen men in art class, some identified by inscription, at Lordsburg Justice Department camp, New Mexico in the evening of February 15, 1943. Three rows of men are seated at picnic tables within a barracks, two or three at each table. Five men in front at two tables hold writing or drawing implements in their right hands and work on a tablets in front of them (left to right): Tamura, Shimabukuro, Inouye, Maehara, Kawabe of Alaska. Hyodo and Reverend Akohashi are seated in the second row on the left. Murakami is seated on far right, second row. Windows roughly sketched in background.
Drawing 97.106.1ER on verso of same sheet.;1 drawing on paper, laminated: ink ; 6 x 9.5 in.

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