In 1942 some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to abandon their homes, jobs, and the majority of their belongings and were transferred to ten concentration camps (alternately called internment camps, evacuation centers, and relocation centers by the US government). Among these Americans was watercolorist Henry Fukuhara, an artist featured in “The Pencil Is a Key,” who was born in Fruitland, California. Fukuhara was forced to move to Manzanar, a concentration camp in Inyo County, where he sketched the experiences of life in the camp. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As an artist trained at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Fukuhara skillfully produced a series of architectural drawings depicting aspirational buildings that for the most part would never be constructed at the camps. In 1943, Fukuhara and his family were able to move to Long Island, where they ran a floral business for the next forty years. He returned to painting and drawing in 1972.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “The Pencil Is a Key: Draw...