332nd Fighter Group in Flight, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("At last we are airborne—We take up our battle positions—White wisps pass us—It's glorious up here.")
October 1943
Gordon Parks
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: 28.5 × 31.1 cm (11 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2019.108.4
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 right in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, center right perpendicular in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "At last we are airborne--We take up our battle positions-- / White wisps pass us--It's glorious up here."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.006; bottom right: GP02595