Title from caption on object: “What Happens When a Bomb Hits Your House”

September 1939

Julien Bryan

Associated Names
Julien Bryan

Artist, American, 1899 - 1974

Associated Press

Publisher

The image shows a scene of urban destruction. There is a large hole filled with water and surrounded by debris near the foreground. A partially collapsed structure with exposed bricks stands next to it. In the background, there are intact buildings in off-white, some of which have flat rooftops and rectangular windows. The horizon is made up of building tops with no natural landscapes. The grayscale image emphasizes the contrasts between dark shadows of debris and damaged buildings and lighter tones of intact structures.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.7 × 23.6 cm (7 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 29.3 cm (8 × 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.319

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Catherine Ryan; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks around perimeter in black ink and white paint; lower right Associated Press logo in black ink on applied paper; across bottom printed in image: (NY15 Oct. 7) WARSAW—WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BOMB HITS YOUR HOUSE—A German bomb apparently aimed at a bridge / across the Vistula river during the siege of Warsaw missed its mark and fell next to this apartment / building, breaking the water main and blasting a hole about 30 feet across. Only wall of the building / was left standing from another direct hit of a heavy bomb. This is another of the series of pictures taken / in Warsaw by Julien Bryan, American photographer and lecturer, during his September 7-21 stay in the / besieged city. Bryan reached New York today. (AP Wirephoto) (Eds: Credit to Bryan in caption is MUST); by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 86.8; on verso, top left stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; upper right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: OCT 9 1939 M; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite perpendicular: 339-12; center left in graphite: 4 [illegible] / Bulldog; center in graphite circled: 5 7/16; center right stamped in black ink perpendicular: WARSAW WAR SCENES; center right stamped in blue ink inverted: [RECEIVED] / [clock] / OCT-7 1939 PM

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