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Nixon delivering "Checkers Speech"
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Nixon delivering "Checkers Speech"

Artist Ed Clark (American, 1911 - 2000)
Date1952
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 9/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31.91 × 46.04 cm)
Mount (1): 12 9/16 × 18 1/8 inches (31.91 × 46.04 cm)
Mount (2): 19 × 23 inches (48.26 × 58.42 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.30.4
SignedSigned on mount 2 verso, lower right, in pencil: "Edward Clark Life"
InscribedInscribed on mount 2 verso, lower left, in pencil: "Nixon "Checkers" Speech".
MarkingsOn mount 2 verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "77" [circled]
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DescriptionImage of Nixon delivering speech from behind a desk while his wife sits next to him and cameramen stand shoulder to shoulder in front of him.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© Estate of Ed Clark. Courtesy Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.
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