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[Listening to radio announcement of bombing of Pearl Harbor, with brother Toku, Berkeley, California, 1941]
[Listening to radio announcement of bombing of Pearl Harbor, with brother Toku, Berkeley, California, 1941]
[Listening to radio announcement of bombing of Pearl Harbor, with brother Toku, Berkeley, California, 1941]

[Listening to radio announcement of bombing of Pearl Harbor, with brother Toku, Berkeley, California, 1941]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.12
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 breakfast table with her brother, Toku, listening to radio about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in Berkeley, California on December 7, 1941. Dressed in dark skirt and cross-patterned top, Mine sits in profile in wooden chair facing radio on wooden table. Toku sits at left in plaid sweater with head resting on hand at right. Sink in counter at top left.

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