2008.32.3.2

 Back to Search Results
(women bathing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(women bathing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942
4.875 in HIGH x 6.5 in WIDE
(12.38 cm HIGH x 16.51 cm WIDE)
Gift of the Estate of the artist
2008.32.3.2

signed "Mine" in image, BR
The first-generation women preferred good old-fashioned bathtubs to showers. - Text accompanying image in old non-archival housing (see object file)
TOM, "Mine Okubo: An American Experience," 1972.OMCA, Gallery of California Art, Open Space 1, "Min_ Okubo: Citizen 13660," May 1 - Aug. 1, 2010.





Clich_s-verre on paper. The image depicts several women washing in shower stalls. A woman at left steps into a pan of water, and a woman at right sits on the edge of a wooden barrel filled with water. Geta sandals appear in two shower stalls at bottom center. A woman in a robe is drawn walking out of the frame at bottom left.

Caption with image, "The first-generation women preferred good old-fashioned bathtubs to showers." "The older women preferred the good old-fashioned bathtubs to showers. It was a common sight to see them bathing in pails, dishpans, or in tubs made from barrels." (p. 76, Citizen 13660)

Bookmark and Share