Title from caption on object: “Triumphant Arthur Ashe at Wimbledon”, 1975

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 18.7 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2023.39.191

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

retouching across recto in gray paint; vertical along right edge printed in image: [illegible] (AP) Arthur Ashe of Richmond, Virginia, the new men's / Singles Champion, holds the trophy aloft, after defeating former title holder, / Jimmy Connors of Belleville, Illinois, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in the All-England Lawn / Tennis Championships here this afternoon. / (AP Wirephoto) (rjp 5/7/75 lon/stf) (333); bottom center printing notes in graphite; on verso, top left printed in black ink: ASHE, ARTHUR (TENNIS); top center: (WINS WIMBLETON [sic]); by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in black ink on applied label: AF217; upper right Historic Images barcode sticker; upper center stamped in black ink: JUL 6 1975; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: --AP Photo / TRIUMPHANT ARTHUR ASHE AT WIMBLEDON / He Had Just Beaten Jimmy Conners at Wimbledon; lower center illegible printing notes in graphite

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Kelbaugh, Ross J.