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Fujiye Fujikawa
'See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak to the FBI' (Poster Design)circa 1942

Not on view
Screenprinted poster split into yellow and blue panels, with illustrated eye, ear, and lips beside the text 'See Hear Speak Evil Evil to the FBI' over a blue bull's head
Artist or Maker
Fujiye Fujikawa
United States, California, Sacramento, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1919-1991
Title
'See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak to the FBI' (Poster Design)
Place Made
United States, Wyoming
Date Made
circa 1942
Medium
Gouache on poster board
Dimensions
26 x 18 in. (66.04 x 45.72 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Harry Fukasawa
Accession Number
M.2012.66
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Curatorial Notes

Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt issued the infamous Executive Order 9066, which authorized military commanders to forcibly relocate more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps. Sacramento-born commercial artist Fujiye Fujikawa was incarcerated at Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. There her silk-screening experience was put to use in the camp’s poster shop, where she designed and printed announcements for camp activities and, ironically, military propaganda posters.



(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)

Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Living in a Modern Way: California Design, 1930-1965. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013.
Selected Exhibition History
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
  • California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012