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Subject(s)

• Asian American art [Browse]
• Japanese American art [Browse]
• Japanese American artists [Browse]
• Japanese Americans—Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 [Browse]
• Prisoners of war as artists—United States [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Evacuation of civilians—United States [Browse]
• Internment camps—Wyoming—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Mountains—Wyoming—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Landscapes—Wyoming—Heart Mountain [Browse]
• Americana—West (U.S.). [Browse]
• Heart Mountain (Wyo.)—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Wyoming—Pictorial works [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Paintings (visual works)—United States—1945 [Browse]

Summary note

Panoramic view of the internment camp at Heart Mountain.

Notes

• Titled by the artist, lower left.
• Signed by the artist, lower right: "J. Miyauchi".
• "Born in Japan in 1888, Jishiro Miyauchi immigrated to Vancouver, B.C., in 1907. After working a variety of jobs on the railroad and in the mines, he eventually pursued his interests in music, attending the Chicago Conservatory of Music and then performing in vaudeville. He settled in Los Angeles with his wife, but during the War they were both sent to the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp. There, he focused on painting, sharing a studio space with other interned artists such as Hideo Date, Jack Yamaski and Gompers Saijo. He created his own paint colors using coal dust, rice paste, and natural pigments found around the camp." -- Biography by Patricia Wakida from the Densho Encyclopedia.

Other title(s)

• Heart Mountain Wyoming
• Heart Mountain Concentration Camp

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