Title from caption on object: “In Step”, April 22, 1961

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 23.1 × 16.5 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

sheet: 24.3 × 18.3 cm (9 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.621

Artists / Makers

Paul Vathis (artist) American, 1925 - 2002

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower left in blue ink crossed out and underlined: with; across bottom printed in image: (THR-6) THURMONT, MD., APRIL 22 - IN STEP - President Kennedy [circled in blue ink] and former / President Eisenhower [underlined and crossed out in blue ink] walk along a flagstone path, in perfect step, at / Camp David, atip [sic] a mountain near Thurmont, Md., today after they flew here / to discuss the Cuban crisis. [underlined in blue ink] In background is one of the lodges at / the camp. (AP Wirephoto) (See AP Wire Story) (wfa 7 1542 stf) 1961; on verso, upper left stamped in blue ink: TRIBUNE CUT ORDER / Subject [by unknown hand in graphite: Ike w/ Kennedy #11] / Size [by unknown hand in graphite: 3 1/2" x 4 5/8"] / For [by unknown hand in graphite: Blue] edition on [by unknown hand in graphite: Wednesday] / Ordered by / Time Date; center left Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING OFFICE / 1965 SEP 17 PM 5:43; center right: ARTISTS 1965 SEP 17 PM 5; lower left stamped in purple ink: APR 24 1961; lower center stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: 4 SEP 22 1965 T; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: KENNEDY, [circled in blue ink] EISENHOWER AT CAMP DAVID / They met in April 1961 to discuss Cuban crisis

Provenance

(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary