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
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
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