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"Young girl getting Shoeshine"
Artist
Henry Sugimoto
(American, 1900 - 1990)
Date1955
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Estate of Henry Yuzuru Sugimoto
Object number2015.7.214
DescriptionStretched. A woman in a red dress holding a black purse getting her shoes shined on a street corner of New York. She smokes a cigarette. She has two pink flowers in her hair. Shoe shiner is a boy in a yellow and green striped shirt. Signed Henry Sugimoto bottom left.
Yoritsune, Henry
1930-1956
Uemura, Susan Hashizume
1953-1954
Okubo, Benji
Watanabe, Gunji
ca. 1936-1937
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