2017.310: A young Negro boy, Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. [Black boy, Washington Square Park, N.Y.C.] 1965

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

Permissions

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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 60’s Experiment, 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

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