Title from caption on object: “Senator Kennedy Catches Up on Work”
May 24, 1955
Artist, American, 1913 - 1974
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.8 × 16 cm (7 13/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.7 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.475
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint; crop marks across top, along left edge, and along right edge in black ink; lower left Associated Press Wirephoto logo in black ink on applied paper; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 61.2; across bottom printed in image: [illegible]10) WASHINGTON, MAY 24,--SEN. KENNEDY CATCHES UP ON WORK--SEN. JOHN [circled in blue ink] / KENNEDY [circled in blue ink] (D-MASS) SITS IN HIS SHIRTSLEEVES AS HE CATCHES UP ON HIS WORK IN / HIS HOTEL SUITE TODAY AFTER RETURNING TO THE CAPITAL AFTER AN EIGHT-MONTH / ABSENCE. / (AP WIREPHOTO (BEF31423STD-WCA) 1955; on verso, top left stamped in black ink: JOHN KENNEDY [by unknown hand in black ink: -5] / 409 - 83 [crossed out in black ink] [by unknown hand in blue ink crossed out in black ink: - 18]; by unknown hand, top left in red ink crossed out in black ink: 50 3 - 4; top left stamped in red ink: MAY 26 1955; by unknown hand, top right in black ink crossed out in red ink: 409 - 83; upper center in blue ink circled: 2-col / [illegible printing notes]; upper right stamped in black ink perpendicular: OTHER; lower right printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: ABN-591-BS