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Laundry Room
Maker
Hisako Hibi
(Japanese American, 1907 - 1991)
Date1943
Mediumoil, Canvas
DimensionsFramed: 21 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (54 x 64.1 cm)
Overall: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Overall: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Ibuki Hibi Lee
Object number96.601.15
DescriptionFramed, stretched canvas. Women in slacks bathing children in long wash basins at laundry room of Topaz concentration camp, Topaz, Utah. Two women in yellow shirts stand at either end of industrial sinks washing children; two children stand in sinks waiting. Girl in red top stands with her arm around a smaller child in yellow at BR. A woman in red jacket sits on a bench holding a child in her lap leaning against back wall, left; two children wait beside her. Another sink is visible at midground right. Open doorway in background reveals row of barracks. Signed on lower right, "Hisako Hibi/Aug 1943".
Written on verso, "'Laundry Room' We only had 4 Bath Tubs. Mothers bathed children in the laundry room."
Written on verso, "'Laundry Room' We only had 4 Bath Tubs. Mothers bathed children in the laundry room."