Title from caption on object: “Greet President with Protests”
May 22, 1965
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.6 × 16.6 cm (8 1/2 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 23 × 17.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.564
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, upper center UPI copyright stamp in black ink inverted; upper center stamped in purple ink inverted and crossed out in green ink: FINANCIAL REVIEW; by unknown hand, center in graphite crossed out in green ink: Fin. Review / Page 3 / Students; center in graphite: Students / 3 col x 3 1/4 / For [illegible], Wed.; center in blue ink crossed out in green ink: x396; center stamped in purple ink: USE / PM [perpendicular] 9 OCT 1969 / HERALD; center right stamped in red ink: USED / HERALD [crossed out in blue ink] [by unknown hand in blue ink: FIN. REV] / 5 MAY 1966; lower left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: New York, 1965 . . . one of the many anti-Johnson, / anti-war protests that helped break the President. / Americans are already asking: "Will the same happen / to Nixon?"; lower left stamped in purple ink on applied paper inverted: HERALD; lower center stamped in purple ink: 1 MAY 1965; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: U.S. students are to the fore in any political demonstration but behind this active / involvement is the deep desire for a "quiet" political life.; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite circled: P2 Herald / 3 5/8" x 6" / Protest; lower right stamped in purple ink: 10 OCT 1969; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite crossed out: 84% / 83%; lower right in black ink: 100; lower right in green ink on applied paper: 976; bottom center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: NXP 1473216 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / GREET PRESIDENT WITH PROTESTS / [by unknown hand in black ink: Demonstration] / NEW YORK: [circled in black ink] An inflated balloon hovering overhead, placard-carrying / demonstrators stage protest rally outside the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel / where President Lyndon B. Johnson is scheduled to speak May 22nd. / The group, comprised of several pacifist groups, chanted protests / against U.S. policies in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. / RU / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO) 5/22/65 hgr