Lt. George Knox. 332nd Fighter Group training at Selfridge Field, Michigan ("Fighters up! And good luck.")

October 1943

Gordon Parks

Associated Names
Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image shows a man posed next to a military aircraft. He has a determined expression and is wearing a pilot's gear including a leather cap, goggles, headphones, flight suit, and harness with chutes, holding onto part of the gear. The aircraft bears an air force emblem on its side and tail. The sky is clear in the background.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.4 × 26.35 cm (10 × 10 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.31 × 26.35 cm (10 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.17.2

  • Copyright

    Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 4, 2018–February 18, 2019; The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 23–June 9, 2019; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, August 31–December 29, 2019; Addison Gallery of American Art, February 1–April 26, 2020

Bibliography

2018

  • National Gallery of Art. Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018: pl. 65.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower left in black ink: Gordon Parks; bottom center printed in negative: "Fighters up! And good luck."

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