Title from caption on object: “King Death Advanced Aims”
April 9, 1968
Artist, American, 1930 - 2008
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 14.9 cm (9 1/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
sheet: 23.8 × 14.9 cm (9 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.626
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, upper center Annual Pictures of the Year Competition stamp in black ink; upper center stamped in green ink on applied newspaper: APR 4 1969 PM; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: King Death Advanced Aims / [reproduction of image] / Widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., [circled in red crayon] at funeral / service (a prize-winning photograph in 26th an- / nual Picture of the Year competition)--His death / demonstrated the negative approach of violence / and lent new impetus to his own philosophy of / peaceful change.; center right stamped in red ink: STAR; by unknown hand, center right in blue ink underlined: [WI]DOW