Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Sugimoto, Henry
Title:
Untitled (News of Pearl Harbor)
Collection Title Date:
1928-1990
Date:
ca. 1942
Place of Origin/Discovery:
California
Materials:
oil on canvas
Current Location:
Japanese American National Museum
Address:
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Object ID:
92.97.104
Provenance:
Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American
National Museum
Object Type:
Painting
Heading:
Inscription
Notes:
Signed in medium, bottom left: H. Sugimoto
Heading:
Description
Notes:
Unstretched and unframed. A Japanese family of three in Hanford, California listen to the radio about the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. A bearded man sits with his back to the viewer at a checked cloth covered table, right hand tuning a radio. To the right, a woman in a white collared blue dress sits next to him, leaning against her right arm with a worried expression. Above her on the grey wall is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a small American flag sticking out of the yellow frame. A pennant, "Hanford HI" hangs above it. A little boy in a blue and white striped shirt and blue overalls stands in the left background, pointing out of the window at a bird flying away into a winter landscape. The upper half of the painting is dominated by a cloudlike scence, overlapping the domestic scene, of two fighter planes coming out of the upper right corner toward a sinking, smoking battleship, USS Arizona, exploding in red and yellow. A tiny plane is visible in the upp!
er left corner.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf4b69n6t j

Untitled (News of Pearl Harbor)

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