Lt. "Wild Bill" William Walker and Lt. George Knox 332nd Fighter Group, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("A guy like Bill has got to come in—Let's wait a while longer."), October 1943

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet/mount: 35.3 × 26.3 cm (13 7/8 × 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Gordon Parks Foundation

Accession Number

2019.108.1

Artists / Makers

Gordon Parks (artist) American, 1912 - 2006

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Inscription

signed by artist, lower left in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, upper center in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "A guy like Bill has gotta come in--Let's wait a while longer."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.003; bottom right: GP02601

Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Gordon Parks Foundation