Fidel Castro

January 2, 1961

Unknown 20th Century

Associated Names
Unknown, 20th Century

Artist

This is a photograph depicting a group of individuals gathered around a podium. The image shows a speaker standing at a podium labeled "FIEL" with a microphone. Surrounding the speaker are several individuals, some wearing military-style berets and uniforms. The image has a textured, painted effect with brush strokes, primarily in gray and black. The top section of the photograph is predominantly dark, emphasizing the lighter parts of the image concentrated around the people at the podium. The composition suggests a formal or significant event.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.5 × 30.8 cm (7 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 19.5 × 31.2 cm (7 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.662

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in black ink, black and grey paint; by unknown hand, top center illegible printing notes in white paint; center crop mark in white paint; on verso, center stamped in purple ink perpendicular: RECEIVED / EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / JAN 10 1961; center right printed in black ink perpendicular and underlined in red pencil: FIDEL CASTRO; by unknown hand, bottom center illegible printing notes in graphite

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