Lt. George Knox. 332nd Fighter Group training at Selfridge Field, Michigan ("Fighters up! And good luck.")
October 1943
Artist, American, 1912 - 2006
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.4 × 26.35 cm (10 × 10 3/8 in.)
sheet: 27.31 × 26.35 cm (10 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2019.17.2
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Copyright
Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; NGA purchase, 2019.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2018
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 4, 2018–February 18, 2019; The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 23–June 9, 2019; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, August 31–December 29, 2019; Addison Gallery of American Art, February 1–April 26, 2020
Bibliography
2018
National Gallery of Art. Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018: pl. 65.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower left in black ink: Gordon Parks; bottom center printed in negative: "Fighters up! And good luck."