Pilots Gambling in Ready Room, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("I fired a long burst and saw an explosion behind the pilot's cockpit—He went straight down—I tried to follow—When he crashed three white blobs jumped out of the ground—Heh! This isn't my deal!")
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: 37.4 × 26.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
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Accession
2019.108.5
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, upper center in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "I fired a long burst and saw an explosion behind the pilot's cockpit / --He went straight down--I tried to follow--When he crashed three / white blobs jumped out of the ground--Heh! This isn't my deal!"; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.004; bottom right: GP02600