Untitled (News of Pearl Harbor)
- Image
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- Created Date
- ca. 1942
- Description
Signed in medium, bottom left: H. Sugimoto
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.
- Creator
Sugimoto, Henry
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- Japanese American National Museum
- Collection
- Sugimoto (Henry) Collection
- Publisher
- Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945
Pearl Harbor
Fighter planes
Aerial bombings
Battleships
Families
Japanese
Lincoln, Abraham
Paintings
Doves
Radios - Location
- California
- Type
- image
- Format
- Painting oil on canvas California
- Rights
- Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
- Chicago citation style
- Sugimoto, Henry. Untitled (News of Pearl Harbor). ca. 1942. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4b69n6tj. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Sugimoto, Henry, (ca. 1942) Untitled (News of Pearl Harbor). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4b69n6tj
- MLA citation style
- Sugimoto, Henry. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4b69n6tj>.