Peter Hujar

May Wilson
1975

Black and white portrait of an elderly woman with her hand resting on her cheek, wearing a striped dress and earrings, sitting against a textured wall. She appears contemplative or reflective.
Black and white portrait of an elderly woman with her hand resting on her cheek, wearing a striped dress and earrings, sitting against a textured wall. She appears contemplative or reflective.

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Date
1975

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet (sight): 14 7/8 × 14 15/16in. (37.8 × 37.9 cm) Image (sight): 14 3/4 × 14 11/16in. (37.5 × 37.3 cm)

Accession number
2024.275

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© The Peter Hujar Archive

API
artworks/38006

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