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[Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing]
- Title: [Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Competition drawing]
- Creator(s): Lin, Maya Ying, architect
- Date Created/Published: [1981]
- Medium: 1 drawing on paper mounted on board : mixed media, color ; sheet 102 x 77 cm.
- Summary: Architectural drawing showing memorial as plan and perspective; includes textual description.
- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09504 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-4915 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-1353 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-1027 (color film copy transparency of top left) LC-USZC4-1028 (color film copy transparency of bottom right) LC-USZ62-90338 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-90337 (b&w film copy neg. bottom left) LC-USZ62-90340 (b&w film copy neg. bottom right) LC-USZC2-1501 (color film copy slide)
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on publication,(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/115_viet.html)
- Access Advisory: Original material served by appointment only.
- Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2228, no. 1 (E size) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
- Notes:
- Competition entry no. 1026.
- Forms part of: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Records, ca. 1979-1984 (Library of Congress).
- Dimensions of upper left item: 33 x 44 cm. Dimensions of lower right item: 35 x 44 cm. Dimensions of lower left item: 33 x 25 cm.
- Caption label from exhibit "Collecting Memories": A New Style of War Memorial. Chinese American designer Maya Lin was an architecture student at Yale University in 1981 when she proposed a radical yet simple concept for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Instead of figurative sculpture, the reflective stone surface of the wall bears the names of more than 58,000 service members who died in the Vietnam War between 1959 and 1975. Two oblique walls are carefully positioned to align on invisible axes with the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, placing this war within the context of American history. Lin's innovative approach to remembrance and honor won the blind competition over more than 1,400 other entries. Today, the powerful design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial draws millions of people each year to walk along its polished black granite wall.
- "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, originally designed as a student project by Maya Lin at Yale University's School of Architecture in 1981, 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, in the shape of a V, on which the names of the American military dead and missing would be inscribed. The architect hoped that "these names, seemingly infinite in number, [would] convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole." Since its unveiling in 1982, the work -popularly known as "the wall" has become a point of reference, inspiring a new generation of American memorials. Maya Lin's drawing is one of 1,421 design-competition submissions documented in the Library of Congress as part of the Papers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. (Source: Library of Congress, American Treasures exhibit caption, ca. 2005, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm022.html)
- Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
- Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide for the study of women's history and culture in the United States / edited by Sheridan Harvey ... [et al.]. Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 385.
- Exhibit loan 4105-L.
- Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 2024 - December 2025.
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- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09504 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-4915 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-1353 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-1027 (color film copy transparency of top left) LC-USZC4-1028 (color film copy transparency of bottom right) LC-USZ62-90338 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ62-90337 (b&w film copy neg. bottom left) LC-USZ62-90340 (b&w film copy neg. bottom right) LC-USZC2-1501 (color film copy slide)
- Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2228, no. 1 (E size) [P&P]
- Medium: 1 drawing on paper mounted on board : mixed media, color ; sheet 102 x 77 cm.
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- Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2228, no. 1 (E size) [P&P]
- Medium: 1 drawing on paper mounted on board : mixed media, color ; sheet 102 x 77 cm.
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