Jerome Liebling

Boys Playing at Abandoned Building, New York City

1949, printed 2001

A black and white photograph showing a group of children playing on a makeshift slide made from planks of wood. The slide is positioned on a set of stairs leading to an ornate doorway of an old building. Two boys are sliding down the plank, one lying on his back and the other sitting, both with expressions of joy. Another boy is standing at the bottom of the slide, looking up, while two more children are watching from the doorway above. The children are dressed in casual, worn clothing, suggesting a bygone era.

A black and white photograph showing a group of children playing on a makeshift slide made from planks of wood. The slide is positioned on a set of stairs leading to an ornate doorway of an old building. Two boys are sliding down the plank, one lying on his back and the other sitting, both with expressions of joy. Another boy is standing at the bottom of the slide, looking up, while two more children are watching from the doorway above. The children are dressed in casual, worn clothing, suggesting a bygone era.

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Date
1949, printed 2001

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm) Image: 10 1/16 × 10 1/16in. (25.6 × 25.6 cm) Mount (board): 20 × 16in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Accession number
2001.319.9

Series
Selected Images

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Ronald B. and Susan N. Milch

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Jerome Liebling

API
artworks/21106

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017

Jerome Liebling
10 works in the collection, 2 exhibitions

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