Title from caption on object: “One of the Most Shocking Pictures Ever Taken in America...”
November 24, 1963
Artist, American, born 1934
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.7 × 31.7 cm (8 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
sheet: 22.2 × 32.2 cm (8 3/4 × 12 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.669
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Gary Edwards Gallery, Southampton, NY); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks center right and lower center in white paint; on verso, center right stamped in purple ink perpendicular: ST. PAUL SUNDAY PIONEER PRESS / PAGE [by unknown hand in graphite: 4] / COPY [by unknown hand in graphite: 1] / ISSUE [by unknown hand in graphite: 12-1-68]; lower center stamped in red ink: DEC 16 1968; lower right printed in black ink on applied newspaper: One of the most shocking pictures ever taken in America...Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the aftermath of the / JFK assassination, by Bob Jackson of the Dallas Times-Herald.; lower right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: P.P. DEC 1 1968; by unknown hand, lower right in blue ink circled in red crayon: Lee Harvey Oswald-sho[t]