Detail of painting - "To Find a Job"


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To Find a Job by Henry Sugimoto, oil on canvas, 1927, Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa, Japanese American National Museum (92.97.107). In his painting “To Find a Job” the image depicts a buranke-katsugi, a term for a migratory agricultural laborer, around the turn of the 20th century.

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