Title from caption on object: “Solemn Scene”, November 24, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22.6 × 18.5 cm (8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)

sheet: 23.3 × 20.5 cm (9 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.502

Artists / Makers

Harry Harris (artist) American, 1913 - 2002

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching across recto in black ink; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 85E; on verso, upper center printed in blue ink perpendicular: XXA 57843; upper right in red ink perpendicular: JFK, Assassination & Funeral; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: SOLEMN SCENE: In Washington yester- / day--A statue of the nation's first mar- / tyred President, Abraham Lincoln, looked / down on the flag-draped casket of the / most recently assassinated Chief Execu- / tive, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.--A. P.; center right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: NOV 25 1963; lower right stamped in red ink: NOV 25 1963

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary