Title from caption on object: “This Informal Picture of the Kennedy Family...”
August 1960
Artist, American, born Germany, 1930 - 2001
Jacques Lowe
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.7 × 18.3 cm (9 3/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
sheet: 25.8 × 20.1 cm (10 3/16 × 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.480
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; by unknown hand, across top crop marks and printing notes in graphite; across bottom printed in image: This informal picture of the Kennedy family is one of the hundreds of photographs / from “Portrait: The Emergence of John F. Kennedy,” an intimate family chronicle by / Jacques Lowe, Kennedy’s official campaign photographer. In words and pictures, / Jacques Lowe traces the emergence of the Kennedy family, JFK’s political beginnings / and all the events that led him to the White House. He includes intimate glimpses / of the home-life and families of the President and his brothers and sisters. McGraw- / Hill will publish “Portrait” on January 18.; by unknown hand, bottom center and bottom right printing notes in graphite; on verso, upper left stamped in red ink: DEC 30 1992; by unknown hand, upper right in blue ink circled: file; center left in graphite perpendicular: [illegible]. pic. people / 3 [circled] / 3 col 7"; center stamped in purple ink perpendicular: DEC 12 1961; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: '66 OCT 18 PM 4:48; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite circled: Caroline; bottom center in black ink: KENNEDY, JOHN F.