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Jerry R. West, Japanese Internment Camp, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 in. Collection of the New…
Japanese Internment Camp
Jerry R. West, Japanese Internment Camp, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 in. Collection of the New…
Jerry R. West, Japanese Internment Camp, 2009, oil on canvas, 42 x 46 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Meridel Rubenstein, 2011 (2011.5). © Jerry R. West. Photo by Blair Clark.

Japanese Internment Camp

Artist (American, born 1933)
Date2009
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 42 x 46 in. (106.7 x 116.8 cm)
Support: 42 x 46 in. (106.7 x 116.8 cm)
Frame: 44 x 48 x 2 3/16 in. (111.8 x 121.9 x 5.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Meridel Rubenstein, 2011
Object number2011.5
DescriptionA painting of the old Civilian Conservation Corps Camp that was turned into a detention facility for Japanese American men. Includes an image of West’s father and uncle on horseback. Both were guards at the camp and as a youngster, West visited them.
eMuseum Notes

Jerry West’s oil painting Japanese Internment Camp depicts the old Civilian Conservation Corps Camp that was turned into a detention facility for Japanese American men during World War II. The painting includes an image of West’s father and uncle on horseback. Both were guards at the camp and as a youngster, West visited them at work.

 

The painting is also a sign of the ethnic complexity and racial feelings in New Mexico: when a monument to the camp was erected more than 50 years later, aging veterans of the Bataan Death March objected strenuously.
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