Title from caption on object: “Spectators Hug the Ground...”

November 22, 1963

Frank Cancellare

Associated Names
Frank Cancellare

Artist, American, 1910 - 1985

United Press International

Publisher

The image shows people on a grassy slope near a street. In the foreground, individuals are seen in various positions. Some are standing, and others are on the ground. Some are holding cameras. In the midground, two motorcycle riders, likely police officers, are riding along the street. The background includes a tree-lined area, a bridge, and various vehicles, indicating a neighborhood or park setting.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.3 × 33.6 cm (9 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 24.5 × 35.6 cm (9 5/8 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.666

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in gray paint; crop mark bottom left in black ink; on verso, top center UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, top center in graphite circled and inverted: 5 1/8 / scene 3xc; top center in green crayon inverted: 4 col / [illegible and crossed out in graphite]; upper right in blue ink: John F. Kennedy [circled and underlined] / Assassination; center stamped in red ink: SUN TIMES / NOV 23 1963; center printed in black ink on applied paper: DAP112207-11/22/63-DALLAS: Spectators hug the ground and newsreel cameramen shoot as the Presiden[t,] / critically wounded by a snipers bullet, is rushed to Parkland Hospital. The President was shot as / was Texas Gov. John Connally as they left the downtown area after a motorcade down Main Street. / UPI TELEPHOTO; lower center stamped in green ink: PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.

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