Title from caption on object: “Spectators Hug the Ground...”
November 22, 1963
Artist, American, 1910 - 1985
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.3 × 33.6 cm (9 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
sheet: 24.5 × 35.6 cm (9 5/8 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.666
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Field Enterprises, Chicago. Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in gray paint; crop mark bottom left in black ink; on verso, top center UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, top center in graphite circled and inverted: 5 1/8 / scene 3xc; top center in green crayon inverted: 4 col / [illegible and crossed out in graphite]; upper right in blue ink: John F. Kennedy [circled and underlined] / Assassination; center stamped in red ink: SUN TIMES / NOV 23 1963; center printed in black ink on applied paper: DAP112207-11/22/63-DALLAS: Spectators hug the ground and newsreel cameramen shoot as the Presiden[t,] / critically wounded by a snipers bullet, is rushed to Parkland Hospital. The President was shot as / was Texas Gov. John Connally as they left the downtown area after a motorcade down Main Street. / UPI TELEPHOTO; lower center stamped in green ink: PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.