United Press International
[Kennedy Family Portrait]

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Artist United Press International (founded 1907)founded 1907

CultureAmerican

Titles

[Kennedy Family Portrait]

Date1960

MediumGelatin silver print with applied graphite and paint

DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 7 in. (22.7 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 15/16 × 7 in. (22.7 × 17.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by F. Richard Pappas in honor of Malcolm Daniel

Object number2017.236

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAlthough in recent years minor Photoshop adjustments to photojournalists’ pictures have caused scandals, heavy retouching with ink and gouache was once common. In this example of the Kennedy family, the print was altered to emphasize the relationship between father and daughter. Once the rest could easily be cropped out, there was no need to continue overpainting the figure of Jackie. The result, however, is uncanny, all the more so because it would ultimately be the smiling John F. Kennedy, instead, who would be erased from the happy family.
ProvenanceMurray Moss; [Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in black graphite, recto, top margin: 1
Inscribed in black graphite, recto, top right margin: 145-13, [illegible crossed out] 97 [illegible crossed out]
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