[Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing], [1980 or 1981] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/72/720df84e521a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures [Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing]
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Catalogued as competition entry no. 1026, this color drawing is one of the more than 1,400 proposals submitted in 1980 and 1981 for a memorial to Americans who served in the Vietnam War. The jury chose the design of Maya Lin, then an architecture student at Yale: a V-shaped black granite wall inscribed with the names of the dead and missing, arranged in the order they were lost. Dedicated in 1982 on the National Mall, the memorial is now popularly known simply as "the wall.
| Created / published | [1980 or 1981] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on paper mounted on board : mixed media, color. |
| Genre | has become a profound symbol that has served to unify and reconcile a nation sorely divided by a foreign entanglement. Lin envisioned a black granite wall |
| Notes | Competition entry no. 1026. Forms part of: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Records, ca. 1979-1984 (Library of Congress). The Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| Subjects | the work---popularly known as "the wall"--has become a point of reference |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,440 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218759 |
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