Title from caption on object: “Widow Consoled”
November 22, 1963
Artist, American, 1920 - 2008
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 15 × 23.5 cm (5 7/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 16.8 × 24.9 cm (6 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.499
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1963 NOV 22 PM 8:37; by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink: Pres. John F. Kennedy [circled and underlined] death [underlined] / wife & children; upper right in graphite: [illegible] / 7 1/8 x 6 1/8 / ON PLANE; center left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ARTISTS / [obscured] PM 8:05; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: 4 NOV 23 1963 T; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Associated Press / Widow Consoled / Mrs. John F. Kennedy, / back to camera, was con- / soled by Rep. Albert Thomas D-Tex., who patted her / shoulder, moments after Lyndon Johnson (right) was / sworn in as President aboard the presidential plane in / Dallas, Tex. Mrs. Johnson was at Mrs. Kennedy's right. / In the background were (from left) Jesse Curry, Dallas / police chief; Mrs. Mary Gallagher, secretary to Mrs. Ken- / nedy, and Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, President Kennedy's / private secretary.