John F. Kennedy

1960

Jacques Lowe

Associated Names
Jacques Lowe

Artist, American, born Germany, 1930 - 2001

The image displays a side profile view of a man's face. The man has a distinctive profile with a prominent nose and dark, combed-back hair. He is wearing a suit jacket and dress shirt. The background is high-contrast black and white, with white highlights around the man's head and face. Various markings and text, such as "outline HT" and "Same Size," appear on the image, along with hand-drawn arrows and crosses. Additional handwritten text is visible along the edges of the photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 18.8 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.6 × 20.4 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.483

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

crop marks and retouching across recto in blue ink and white paint; by unknown hand, vertical along upper left edge in blue ink: Chicago Amer. [illegible]; vertical along center right edge in black ink: Same Size [illegible printing note]; lower left in white paint: outline HT / same size; bottom left in blue ink: Same size; bottom center: 3 1/10 in wide; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite inverted: Art Out [?] / Rv59; upper right stamped in blue ink inverted: JUL 20 1961; upper right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING DEPT. / 1961 SEP 28 PM 12 59; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular, underlined, and circled: John F. Kennedy; center in graphite circled and perpendicular: 100; center right in blue crayon perpendicular: 1634; lower left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: ABT-878-CT

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