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Susie Ironing Camp Room
Susie Ironing Camp Room
Susie Ironing Camp Room

Susie Ironing Camp Room

Maker (American, 1900 - 1990)
Date1943
Mediumoil, canvas
DimensionsH: 23.75 in, W: 19.75 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum
Object number92.97.84
DescriptionA woman, Susie Sugimoto, irons a red piece of material with a flatiron in right foreground, while her husband, Henry Sugimoto, watches her over his right shoulder with a paintbrush poised in his left hand above a canvas in the background left. Susie's hair is pulled back and she wears a white apron over a blue spotted yellow dress. Sugimoto is dressed in blue and is seated on a crate.;Stretched and framed.

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