Hideo Kobashigawa Collection
PARTNER
Japanese American National Museum
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COLLECTION ID
ddr-janm-14
DESCRIPTION
This collection contains pieces by restaurant worker Hideo Kobashigawa over a period of 50 years, including oil, ink, and watercolor paints. He was incarcerated at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps.
INCLUSIVE UNIT DATE
1942-1945
BULK UNIT DATE
1942-1945
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
5 paintings
CONTRIBUTOR
Japanese American National Museum
CREATORS
- Kobashigawa, Hideo (painter)
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Japanese American National Museum
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
5 Objects
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Tule Lake (flowers in blue vase) (ddr-janm-14-1)
Unframed sheets of thick warped paper glued together. Round blue vase with colorful flowers. Framed for exhibit.
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Tule Lake Camp (ddr-janm-14-2)
Unframed, unmatted sheet of paper, brown landscape with mountains. Hideo Kobashigawa signature on bottom right. Text under that reads a circled symbol that is followed by, "means Spray" and another circled symbol that reads, "V means Varnish" and "Tule Lake, 1944?"\n\nOther side is an ink drawing of Coney Island with ferris wheel, a tower and a …
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Tule Lake Camp (sunflowers) (ddr-janm-14-3)
Framed, stretched canvas. Canvas nailed into varnished wood strip frame. Image: pot of sunflowers and smaller yellow flowers on brown table.
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Tule Lake Camp (still life with flowers) (ddr-janm-14-4)
Oil on stretched and varnished canvas nailed into varnished wood slat frame. Vase of flowers on top lower corner, dark green teapot without lid, red, yellow, and green apples and pears grouped around pot. Fabric draped between vase and teapots. Colors are dark.
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Tule Lake (ddr-janm-14-5)
Stretched and varnished canvas nailed into varnished wood slat frame. Image: Large dark brown mountain fills almost whole canvas, some blue sky visible TLC and along TRE.