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Hibi, Hisako

We Had to Fetch Coal for the Pot-Belly Stove

20x24 inches (h x w x d)
1944
oil on canvas

Alternative title: Fetching Coal

Property of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Materials

canvas; oil paint (pigmented coating)

Techniques

oil painting (technique)

Style/Period

figurative art; landscapes (representations); painterliness; Post-Impressionist

Subjects

landscapes (representations); people (agents); women; working class; Executive Order 9066; Hibi, Hisako; Japanese-American internment
We Had to Fetch Coal for the Pot-Belly Stove
Source: Slide