Lt. "Wild Bill" William Walker, former college athlete, in the cockpit of a P39, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("All clear—Contact."), October 1943

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet/mount: 29.85 × 26.04 cm (11 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Avalon Fund

Accession Number

2019.17.4

Artists / Makers

Gordon Parks (artist) American, 1912 - 2006

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, center left in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "All clear—Contact."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.002; bottom right: GP02592

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Gordon Parks Foundation

Exhibition History

2018: Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 4, 2018–February 18, 2019; The Cleveland Museum of Art, March 23–June 9, 2019; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, August 31–December 29, 2019; Addison Gallery of American Art, February 1–April 26, 2020

Bibliography

2018: National Gallery of Art. Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018: pl. 66.