Arnold Newman

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York City
1941

A black and white photograph of a bespectacled man sitting at a desk with his chin resting on his hand, looking pensive. On the desk, there is a model steam locomotive in front of him and a sculpture of a man with outstretched arms and a bird perched on a globe to his right. A framed picture hangs on the wall in the background.

A black and white photograph of a bespectacled man sitting at a desk with his chin resting on his hand, looking pensive. On the desk, there is a model steam locomotive in front of him and a sculpture of a man with outstretched arms and a bird perched on a globe to his right. A framed picture hangs on the wall in the background.

Not on view

Date
1941

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 9 15/16in. (20 × 25.2 cm) Image: 7 3/4 × 9 7/8in. (19.7 × 25.1 cm)

Accession number
91.50.5

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Weiss

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/7763

Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Apr 2, 2016–Apr 2, 2017

Arnold Newman
3 works in the collection

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