Lt. "Wild Bill" William Walker and Lt. George Knox 332nd Fighter Group, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("A guy like Bill has got to come in—Let's wait a while longer.")
October 1943
Artist, American, 1912 - 2006
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet/mount: 35.3 × 26.3 cm (13 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2019.108.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; gift to NGA, 2019.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower left in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, upper center in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "A guy like Bill has gotta come in--Let's wait a while longer."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.003; bottom right: GP02601