Block 6
Series TitleMinidoka Snapshots
Artist
Roger Shimomura
(American, born 1939)
Publisher
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(American, founded 1979)
Date2010
MediumLithograph on Rives BFK white paper
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 8 inches (16.51 × 20.32 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (25.08 × 27.31 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (25.08 × 27.31 cm)
Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger
Object number2023.40.69
SignedSigned below the image: R Shimomura 2010
MarkingsSigned below the image: 18/30 “Block 6”
Edition/State/Proof18/30
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionIn the lower part, three dark brown houses with pitched roofs against five rows of barbed wire. A beige wall behind the wire is topped with a brown plank, with a sixth row of barbed wire above it. The outline of snowy mountains visible between the plank and the top wire. At the left, a watchtower, also in dark brown, with crisscross supports and a machine gun on top, aimed to the right.ProvenanceC. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.
Copyright© Roger Yukata Shimomura
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