Description
From the estate of Colin Powell, White House Jumbo photograph of First Lady Barbara Bush and Alma Powell at the 1991 State of the Union Address.
Stamped on verso: “Official Photograph / The White House / Washington D.C.” Color photograph printed on foam board, black wood frame, hanging cable on verso. Code on verso: “29Jan91 / C19119-12 / CP.” Full piece measures 24.5″ x 17″. Signed on the verso by Sec. Louis Wade Sullivan, Mike Deland (EPA) and Sec. Samuel K. Skinner.
At a lunch with President Barack Obama in 2011, White House photographer Pete Souza asked General Powell if he remembered him from his time in the Reagan administration. Powell responded, “of course, I still have one of his jumbos hanging over my hot tub.”
Provenance: Potomac Auction House, Lot 1064, Estate of Colin Powell, 2022.