Marines Advancing, Tarawa
Artist
Steichen Group
(American, active 1942–1946)
Date1943
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 19.5 x 24.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.9 x 25.5 cm (8 1/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
sheet: 20.9 x 25.5 cm (8 1/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
MarkingsOn verso: U.S. Marine Corps Stamps in blue ink:
"File No: MHQ 63456
TARAWA - Marines advancing from behind a sandbag entrenchment hurriedly thrown up on Tarawa's flat atoll at the Marines wrested the strategic base from the Japanese in seventy-siz bloody hours. (U.S. Marine Corps photo).
(This is a Print No. 100 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City).
"THIS IS AN OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTOGRAPH"
Stamp in black ink: "POWER IN THE PACIFIC
Battle Photographs of our Navy in
Action on the Sea and in the Sky.
Jan. 24, 1945,-Mar. 18, 1945
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 St., New York"
In black ink: "Please return to Worcester Art Museum".
In graphite: "Marine 63456"
In blue ink: "Unit……………………………….
RELEASED OFFICIAL NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH
If published,
Credit Line Must Read
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"
Credit LineTransfer from Museum Archives
Terms
Object number2003.129
Provenancetransferred from the museum archivesOn View
Not on view
Mizuno Toshikata
March 1895 (Meiji 28)
