Camp Jerome

Artist Henry Sugimoto (American, 1900 - 1990)

MediumWoodcut print on paper

ClassificationsFine Arts

Credit LineGift of Estate of Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto

Object number2015.7.100

DescriptionFramed and glazed. Image of a mess hall (?) in Camp Jerome, Arkansas. The landscape is detailed with aspects of camp life, including a platform with containers (food, water?), several wooden bins, a lone electricity pole (left), and a row of barracks (right) with a leaning tree.
The tree is a focal point of the image as its leaves spread upwards like fans; in the distance, a dark outline of a forest and the sky, and lack of any figures create a spooky, deserted feeling to the image.