Title from caption on object: “In the Doorway of the White House...”
October 1962
Cecil Stoughton
Artist, American, 1920 - 2008
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 24.3 × 16 cm (9 9/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2018.177.482
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks around perimeter in black and blue ink; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: during the day. / Recently, I was sitting in the reception room of Kennedy's / [reproduction of image with caption below printed in black ink: In the doorway of the White House / one day in 1963, Bobby Kennedy paused to talk with his brother, President John / F. Kennedy. The family resemblance, in this view, is striking. One woman, see- / ing Bobby during a campaign tour in / New York remarked—"in the face, as / alike as two peas."] / office and struck up a conversation with an old man with a / weather-beaten face who said he was a farmer from South Dakota. / "I drove 2,000 miles just to get a look at [cut off]; center stamped in green ink on applied newspaper: OCT 29 1967 PM