Roger Bannister Breaks Four Minute Mile Barrier
May 6, 1954
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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: 20.8 × 16.5 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.1 × 16.9 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.593
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink: Roger Bannister; upper center printed in purple ink perpendicular: RSK 01719; by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: Roger Bannister / 2 cols Sun [illegible] / [illegible]; center left International News Photos copyright stamp in blue ink; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite inverted: 4 col / Sun / [illegible]; lower right stamped in red ink: FEB 11 1955