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Norman Yoshio Mineta

Portrait painting of Norman Yoshio Mineta, three-quarter length, wearing a suit, tie, and eyeglasses, standing and holding a paper. In the upper left background are an Asian man, woman, and boy, wearing 1940s era clothes, standing by barracks with a western mountain background. In the lower right is the Capitol./tiles/collection/2/255.xml
Portrait painting of Norman Yoshio Mineta, three-quarter length, wearing a suit, tie, and eyeglasses, standing and holding a paper. In the upper left background are an Asian man, woman, and boy, wearing 1940s era clothes, standing by barracks with a western mountain background. In the lower right is the Capitol.
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Date

1995

Artist

George Pollard and Jim Pollard

Dimensions

46 3/4 x 35 1/4 in. (118.7 x 89.5 cm) Framed: 54 1/4 x 43 in. (137.8 x 109.2 cm)

Accession Number

2002.022.008

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

The portrait of Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Norm Mineta tracks his life and career from an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II to the halls of Congress. Artists George and Jim Pollard used their signature blue-and-white background and layered it with a dream-like image of Mineta and his parents in Heart Mountain internment camp, and the Capitol appears at lower right.

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