On view
Floor 5
Date
c. 1972
Classification
Photographs
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 13/16in. (9.8 × 14.8 cm) Image: 3 7/8 × 5 13/16in. (9.8 × 14.8 cm) Mount: 14 × 11 × 1/16in. (35.6 × 27.9 × 0.2 cm)
Accession number
2017.194
Edition
Vintage
Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Anne Levy Fund
Rights and reproductions
© Ming Smith
Exhibitions
Installation photography
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Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025-January 19, 2026). From left to right: Ed Ruscha, Surrealism, 1966; Robert Crumb, Head #1, 1967; Robert Crumb, Burned Out, cover of the “East Village Other” 5, no. 10, 1970; Mike Henderson, Dufus, 1970/73; Ming Smith, Kites Inside, Columbus, Ohio, c. 1972; Shawn Walker, Man with Bubble, Central Park (near Bandshell), c. 1960-79 (printed 1989); Romare Bearden, Pittsburg Memory 2/6, 1964; Diane Arbus, Five members of the Monster Fan Club, N.Y.C. 1961, 1961; Adger Cowans, Three Shadows, 1966; Paul Thek, Untitled, 1963. Artworks © Ed Ruscha; © Robert Crumb, 1967; © Mike Henderson; © Ming Smith; © Shawn Walker; © 2025 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © The Estate of Diane Arbus; © Adger Cowans; © Estate of Paul Thek. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art
From the exhibition Sixties Surreal