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- Creator:
- Mikami, Charles Erabu, 1902-1998 artist
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-3059
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, by Japanese prisoners of war. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the center; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at the lower left corner "S. Mikami." The second is a scene within the camp and features residential cabins, pathways, and unidentified figures at either sunrise or sunset. It is signed at the lower right with Japanese characters and a red chop mark, measures 27 x 38 cm, and is inscribed in pencil on the reverse in an unidentified hand: “Delta, Utah / Japanese / Relocation / Camp / 19.”
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Company (PBA Galleries sale, San Francisco, 2013 July 11, lot 253) on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2013.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Sevier Desert (Utah)--Pictorial works
- Subject (Name):
- Central Utah Relocation Center--Pictorial works and Mikami, Charles Erabu,--1902-1998
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--United States, Concentration camps--United States--Pictorial works, and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Drawings of Utah]
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- Creator:
- Douglas, Aaron, artist
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 167
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Abstract:
- One gouache drawing by Aaron Douglas created to illustrate "The Prodigal Son" in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, by James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1927). The illustration features silhouettes of a man and two women grouped under a single overhead light, and framed by graphic representations of jazz-age vices such as a dollar bill, playing cards, dice, and a gin bottle, as well as jazz trombones, jutting in from the outside edges. It is one of eight illustrations by Douglas for the volume.
- Alternative Title:
- The Prodigal Son
- Description:
- Aaron Douglas, American painter and illustrator active in the Harlem Renaissance; he was born in 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, and died in 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1966., and Title devised by cataloger.
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, Aaron and Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.--God's Trombones--Illustrations
- Subject (Topic):
- Illustration of books--United States and Illustrators--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Illustration for God's trombones].
