An American soldier stands on top of a destroyed Iraqi tank. Kuwaiti oil wells, ignited by Saddam's retreating forces, burn in the distance, Kuwait

An American soldier stands on top of a destroyed Iraqi tank. Kuwaiti oil wells, ignited by Saddam's retreating forces, burn in the distance, Kuwait

Photograph

Peter Turnley

Maker
American, b. 1955

An American soldier stands on top of a destroyed Iraqi tank. Kuwaiti oil wells, ignited by Saddam's retreating forces, burn in the distance, Kuwait

1991
Inkjet print
Image: 13 5/16 × 20 in. (33.8 × 50.8 cm)
Paper: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Gift of Harry Schiavi, 2020
Inscriptions Signed in ink on recto, BR: Peter Turnley
Signed in pencil on verso, BR: Peter Turnley \ 1991
Inscribed in ink on applied label on accompanying sleeve, BRC: 748

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