"My Best Wishes, Jesse Owens", 1935, printed later

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.1 × 23.6 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

sheet: 20.5 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation

Accession Number

2023.39.153

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

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Inscription

signed by Jesse Owens, lower right in black ink: My Best Wishes / Jesse Owens; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Mon Press - gen - Lee / 3 col; by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: AF097 / RHH / 4.21.16; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite underlined: Keynote Speaker

Provenance

Dick Lewis, Elmhurst, IL, 1958. (sale, flea market, Maryland); Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Kelbaugh, Ross J.