untitled (Tule Lake collage)

Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani, artist

1920–2012

untitled (Tule Lake collage), 2002

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: collage; drawing; ballpoint pen; colored pencil; photography; leaves; null; paper

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 55.8 x 83.5 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 15/16 x 32 7/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2020.0219

On display: Simons Gallery

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Street Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani

Japanese American artist Roger Shimomura first met Mirikitani in Washington Square Park, where Mirikitani displayed his art across from NYU’s Grey Art Museum. “I knew Jimmy before anybody,” Shimomura recalled. “Every time I went to New York, he would be in Washington Square.” The two artists connected over their shared experience of wartime incarceration— Shimomura’s family at Minidoka and Mirikitani at Tule Lake. Both transformed these histories of displacement into art confronting identity, racism, and the legacy of incarceration.