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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.310
People
Diane Arbus, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1923 - 1971 New York, N.Y., USA)
Printed by Neil Selkirk
Title
A young Negro boy, Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. [Black boy, Washington Square Park, N.Y.C.] 1965
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1965, printed later
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/360179

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The Estate of Diane Arbus; Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt, San Francisco, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2017

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
11/75

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt
Copyright
© The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.310
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Colleen Walsh, "Taking it all personally: Carpenter Center show reflects racial disparities that helped fuel James Baldwin's writing", Harvard Gazette (Cambridge, MA, 2018)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 04/08/2024
  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

Verification Level

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