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Pure Havana!"" – Vintage Wall Art

Pure Havana!"" — historic drawing
Pure Havana!"". Historic drawing from the Latin America collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Pure Havana!"". Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Pure Havana!" is the title Draper Hill gave this India ink drawing, which he signed and inscribed to a friend in February 1974. It appeared on February 5, 1974, as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, fresh from a state visit to Cuba, arrived in the United States for talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon. Those meetings were meant to prepare Nixon's upcoming trip to the Soviet Union, and many observers expected Gromyko to raise the possible easing of Cold War tensions. The Cuba reference ties the drawing to that moment, and the white highlights over the tonal film give it a dramatic, staged look.

Medium1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with opaque white on tonal film overlay; 42.6 x 29.4 cm. (sheet)
Notes1974 Feb. 5 [publication date]
SubjectsInscribed, lower left: For Connie----in friendship---Draper 18 Feb\\ 74---. No copyright information found with item. Signed, lower left: Draper Hill. Title inscribed above image. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.323) Following an early February 1974 state visit to Cuba, Foreign Minister Gromyko arrived in the United States for talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Nixon. Gromyko and Nixon were scheduled to discuss the President's upcoming visit to the Soviet Union. Many believed that Gromyko would also try to discuss the possible easing of frozen Cuban-American relations. Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress). Published in: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.), February 5, 1974.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,069 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156097

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