Estelle Peck Ishigo’s Japanese Picnic in Elysian Park (1954)

Ishigo accompanied her Japanese husband Arthur when he was interred in 1942 until World War II ended. Japanese Picnic in Elysian Park exemplifies Ishigo’s renewed spirits a decade after the hardship of unjust confinement.

Elysian Park is among Los Angeles’s largest parks.

Featured Image: Estelle Ishigo’s Japanese Picnic in Elysian Park (1954). watercolor on paper. UCLA Library, Los Angeles, CA