A human skull lies inside a small framed wooden panel on a dark, aged surface.

Photographs

Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window

1963

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.3 cm) Image: 15 9/16 × 15 3/8 in. (39.5 × 39.1 cm)
Accession number
2011.30
Acquired
2011
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee
Reproduction credit
© 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive
Department
collection

About this work

Peter Hujar, Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window, 1963. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.3 cm) Image: 15 9/16 × 15 3/8 in. (39.5 × 39.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 2011.30. © 1987 The Peter Hujar Archive

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