Title from caption on object: “Solemn Scene”
November 24, 1963
Artist, American, 1913 - 2002
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.6 × 18.5 cm (8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 23.3 × 20.5 cm (9 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.502
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in black ink; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 85E; on verso, upper center printed in blue ink perpendicular: XXA 57843; upper right in red ink perpendicular: JFK, Assassination & Funeral; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: SOLEMN SCENE: In Washington yester- / day--A statue of the nation's first mar- / tyred President, Abraham Lincoln, looked / down on the flag-draped casket of the / most recently assassinated Chief Execu- / tive, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.--A. P.; center right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: NOV 25 1963; lower right stamped in red ink: NOV 25 1963