Title from caption on object: “Bereaved Family”
November 24, 1963
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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: 33.6 × 21.3 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 35.3 × 28.1 cm (13 7/8 × 11 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.673
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top center in black ink: 3 3/4" x 8" PEOPLE / 1/3 [circled]; top right in black grease pencil: 890 [crossed out] / 880 [crossed out] / 650; vertical along right edge printed in image: (WX8) WASHINGTON, NOV. 24--BEREAVED FAMILY--Mrs. John F. Kennedy stands at a White House entrance / with her children, three-year-old John, Jr., and Caroline, before joining the procession in which / her husband's body was borne from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol. At rear are / Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Mrs. Jean Smith, sister of the slain President. / (AP WIREPHOTO) (SEE AP WIRE STORY) (rw11355stf), [1]963; on verso, top center printed in blue ink perpendicular: SSA 26107; top right stamped in black ink: ROBERT KENNEDY [underlined in red ink] / JACQUELINE KENNEDY / JOHN F. KENNEDY, JR. / CAROLINE KENNEDY; upper center stamped in red ink: PEOPLE; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 3 3/4" x 8"; upper center in blue ink circled in graphite: JACKIE / + / KIDS; upper right stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / NOV 25 1963; lower right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper: NOV 25 1963; lower right printed in black ink on applied newspaper: [reproduction of image] / —Associated Press Wirephoto / THE BEREAVED FAMILY OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AT WHITE HOUSE ENTRANCE / Mrs. Kennedy [circled in red pencil] stands in front with John Jr. and Caroline. At rear are Attorney General Robert Kennedy / and Mrs. Jean Smith, a sister of the slain President