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Teaching art classes, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman wearing a cross-patterned shirt and holding a paintbrush, Mine Okubo teaches a disorderly elementary school art class in Tanforan. She stands in the right midground and looks over her shoulder at two girls who appear to be fighting. Three rows of desks seat ten children painting with watercolors. Each student has his own set of paints, water cup, paper, and brush. Two boys in the front row paint on each other.
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- Title: Teaching art classes, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
- External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
- Medium: ink, paper
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.93)
- Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.
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