Waiting for Survivors: The Andrea Doria Sinking
1956
Artist, American, 1918 - 1978

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.4 × 34 cm (8 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
mount: 35.7 × 40.6 cm (14 1/16 × 16 in.) -
Accession
2022.154.27
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of Robert B. Menschel, New York; gift to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, bottom right impressed with graphite pencil: W. Eugene Smith; lower right below image in red ink: W. EUGENE SMITH; by unknown hand, upper center above image in graphite: Just to hide those nicks; on verso, center artist stamp in black ink; lower center artist stamp in red ink; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite crossed out in black ink: AD-S-O