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American Guardian

Artist Roger Shimomura (American, born 1939)
Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)
MediumGraphite, and color pencil on paper
DimensionsImage and sheet: 44 1/4 × 30 inches (112.4 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund
Object number2024.9.122
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DescriptionThis pencil sketch layout with yellow tints shows depicts the outlines of an armed soldier surveilling a small child on a tricycle dwarfed by barracks surrounded by barbed-wired.Provenance
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