Object number1974.21.7
A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C.
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio A Box of Ten Photographs
Date1966
Artist
Diane Arbus
(American, 1923-1971)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1974
DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 x 14 15/16 in. (39.3 x 38 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/16 x 16 1/8 in. (50.9 x 41 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/16 x 16 1/8 in. (50.9 x 41 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn verso, by Doon Arbus, Executor, upper left corner in ink within portfolio stamp: 16/50; upper right corner in ink within stamp: A YOUNG BROOKLYN FAMILY GOING FOR A / SUNDAY OUTING, N.Y.C. 1966 / NEIL SELKIRK / Doon Arbus; by unidentified hand, upper left corner: 29 [circled] / 33 Secs / 1.45 / 29 [circled]; lower left corner in pencil: VC 74.21.7
MarkingsOn verso, stamped upper left: 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
Copyright© The Estate of Diane Arbus
BibliographyArbus, 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. 3-6, 104; Arbus, Diane, Israel Marvin, and Doon Arbus. diane arbus . 25th anniversary ed. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1997, n.p.; Arbus, Diane, Thomas W Southall, and Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art. Magazine Work. Edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1984, p. 106; Arbus, Diane, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Diane Arbus : Revelations. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 2003, pp. 8-9, 181
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryThe Friends Focus: On Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 7, 1989 - February 11, 1990;Naked City: Photographs from Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL, November 18, 2010 - January 29, 2011
DescriptionPrinted on Agfa paper. A group portrait outdoors with a building behind a woman holding a baby, coat, and bag and a man holding the hand of a child.
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