Title from caption on object: “President Kennedy Leads Washington Officialdom 1/8 in Paying Homage to the Mona Lisa at the Glittering Unveiling Ceremony at the National Gallery of Art...”
January 8, 1963
American 20th Century
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 15.4 × 21.5 cm (6 1/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
sheet: 18.1 × 22.8 cm (7 1/8 × 9 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.481
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Historic Images, Memphis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top center in blue ink: x; across top printed in image: WAP 010833 1/8/63 WASHINGTON: [underlined in blue ink] Pres. Kennedy leads Washington officialdom 1/8 in paying / homage to the Mona Lisa at a glittering unveiling ceremony at the National Gallery of [underlined in blue ink] / Art. [underlined in blue ink] Seated behind the Chief Executive is Secy of State Dean Rusk. The President thanked / France for permitting the world’s most famous work of art to be shown in the U.S. UPI; on verso, upper left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: historicimages.com / nee3399; upper right stamped in purple ink: REFERENCE / JAN 13 '63 / N. E. A.; center left UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, center right in graphite inverted: A42023