Title from caption on object: “Grief”

June 19, 1953

American 20th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.3 × 17 cm (8 × 6 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.3 × 20.6 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.420

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: (WX1) WASHINGTON, JUNE 20--GRIEF--An unidentified picket, partly shielded in / her grief by a fellow sign carrier’s placard, cries and mops away tears / as she walked the White House sidewalk last night about the time Julius / and Ethel Rosenburg [sic] died in the electric chair at Sing Sing for giving / away atom secrets. She was one of the pro-Rosenberg pickets, vainly / asking for Presidential clemency for the condemned pair. News of the / deaths of the Rosenbergs broke up the picket line which has ringed / the White House for many months. (AP WIREPHOTO) (SEE STORY) (rw70100bhr) 53; on verso, upper center stamped in black ink and underlined in red pencil: JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG; center stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / JUN 21 1953

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