Water!

January 1942

Frank Noel

Artist, American, 1905 - 1966

Frank Noel

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 25 × 15.7 cm (9 13/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 17.5 cm (9 15/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.616

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks around perimeter in graphite; on verso, top left stamped in blue ink: ENGRAVING / 1942 APR 20 PM 6:27; by unknown hand, upper center in red crayon inverted: 3 p [?]; center left perpendicular: 303; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper inverted: Two Lifeboats Sail Sea; / Only One Reaches Land / [reproduction of top image] / LIFEBOAT SAILS INDIAN OCEAN / [reproduction of bottom image] / CREWMAN PLEADS FOR MORE WATER; bottom center printed in black ink inverted and circled in red ink: WORLD WAR II - INDIAN OCEAN - RESCUES

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