"Boy playing on fireescape"

Artist Henry Sugimoto (American, 1900 - 1990)

Date1953

MediumOil on canvas (and oil pastel?)

ClassificationsFine Arts

Credit LineGift of Estate of Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto

Object number2015.7.63

DescriptionUnstretched. Image of a boy in overalls on a fire escape. The image background is an eccentric mix of yellow, purple, and green clothes hung up on a clothing wire. The boy peers over his left shoulder with one leg stuck out; his expression and reason for being on the fire escape is not known. A potted cactus (bottom right) and yellow frame (?) (bottom left) appear on the fire escape. The boy is dressed in a red shirt and shoes, and blue overalls. The image is a much clearer precursor to a second version of this image (2015.7.62).