Untitled
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (stone) in black on uncalendered Rives paper
Dimensions
sheet: 20.3 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.13
About the Artist
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922–1992), known to friends and colleagues as Mike, was born in Ogden, Utah, to Japanese immigrant parents and spent his early childhood in Hiroshima, Japan, with his grandparents. He returned to the United States in 1940 and enlisted in the U.S. Army the following year. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was arrested and confined in internment camps, an experience that marke...