Peter Hujar

Edwin Denby
1975

Black and white portrait of an elderly man with a white beard, eyes closed, sitting with a relaxed posture against a cushioned background. He is wearing a casual collared shirt. The photo has a white border framing it.

Black and white portrait of an elderly man with a white beard, eyes closed, sitting with a relaxed posture against a cushioned background. He is wearing a casual collared shirt. The photo has a white border framing it.

Not on view

Date
1975

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 7/8in. (50.5 × 40.3 cm) Image: 14 5/8 × 14 11/16in. (37.1 × 37.3 cm)

Accession number
2006.209

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Frances Cohen and Stephen Koch

Rights and reproductions
© The Peter Hujar Archive

API
artworks/29610

Exhibitions

Two Years

Oct 17, 2007–Feb 17, 2008

Peter Hujar
41 works in the collection

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