Identical twins, Roselle, N.J.

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio A Box of Ten Photographs

Date1967

Artist Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, printed early 1970s

DimensionsSheet: 19 11/16 x 15 3/4 in. (50 x 40 cm)
Image: 15 1/8 x 15 1/8 in. (38.4 x 38.4 cm)
Matted: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund

Period20th c

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Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by Doon Arbus, Executor, upper left corner in ink: 16/50; upper right corner in ink within stamp: IDENTICAL TWINS, ROSELLE, N.J. 1967 / NEIL SELKIRK / Doon Arbus; by unidentified hand, upper left corner in pencil [upside down]: 4 [circled] / 28; lower left corner in pencil: 15"x15 1/4" / VC 74.21.1

MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper right: This print is part of a limited edition portfolio of / ten Diane Arbus photographs.; stamped upper center: Not to be reproduced in any way without / written permission from Doon Arbus.; stamped upper right corner: title / date / print by

BibliographyArbus, Diane, Israel Marvin, and Doon Arbus. diane arbus . 25th anniversary ed. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1997, cover, n.p.; Arbus, Diane, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Diane Arbus: Revelations. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2003, pp. 182, 265, 270-271, 324; Arbus, Diane, John P Jacob, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. A Box of Ten Photographs. New York: Aperture Foundation in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2018, pp. 15-18, 104; Lombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 81

Vassar Exhibitions

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Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryImage Making: Photographic Selections from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 21 - March 6, 1994;

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionPrinted on Agfa paper. A three quarter length portrait of two young twin girls standing shoulder to shoulder with matching headbands and collared dresses, standing on a brick floor with a plain white wall behind them.

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