Mix & Match

Artist Roger Shimomura (American, born 1939)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

MediumGraphite and paint on paper

DimensionsImage and sheet: 22 1/8 × 29 7/8 inches (56.21 × 75.9 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 number2024.9.128

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Contemporary Art

Terms

American

DescriptionThis pencil layout with color scheme for a color chart depicts two images on one sheet. In the left image, a white man with blond hair kisses a Japanese woman with an elaborate hairdo. Her neck and shoulders are naked. His proper right hand presses into her shoulder. In the image on the right, a caricature of a Japanese man with rabbit-like front teeth, round glasses, mustaches, and slanted eyes, dressed in a blue suit, a black and yellow striped bowtie, and a brown hat faces right to leer at a white woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, dressed in a red coat. She turns to face us in three-quarter view. Her mouth is open and she seems to be looking for a way out.Provenance

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