Title from caption on object: “Son Vinh's Family...”
March 14, 1966
Artist, American, 1933 - 2004
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.8 × 16.5 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
sheet: 21.3 × 19.1 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.557
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in red ink circled: Viet Nam - Pol. + [illegible]; upper right in graphite: Saigon #2; upper right: 1 x 4 1/2; upper right printed in black ink on applied sticker: 33; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink inverted; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Associated Press, Uni [cut off] / Vinh's family, including seven children and three other women, never got / closer than a block from the execution (center).; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: 1st Mon Star; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ARTISTS / 1966 MAR 14 AM [obscured]; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: 2 MAR 14 1966; lower center stamped in black ink inverted: ENGRAVING OFFICE