Three Flags

Three Flags

Public Domain

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Three Flags
  • from the exhibition Bravo 20 ; The Bombing of the American West
Date1990
PlaceUnited States
MediumChromogenic print and text
DimensionsImage: 1 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (4.9 × 22.7 cm)
 Sheet: 9 × 11 3/4 in. (22.9 × 29.8 cm)
 Mat: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Richard and Alice Thall
Object number97.626.43
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRichard and Alice Thall, Locust Valley, New York; given to MFAH, 1997.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed on mat below image "THIS EXHIBITION IS DEDICATED TO DICK HOLMES(1928-1987) AND DR. RICHARD BARGEN"
printed top margin of sheet "FOR DICK HOLMES(1928-1987) AND DR. RICHARD BARGEN"
printed bottom margin below image "Dick(left) and Doc raising the flag on Lone Rock, 6 November 1986"


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