Child selling plastic orchids at night, N.Y.C. 1963

1963, printed 1965–1966

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 10 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (25.7 × 23.2 cm)
Accession number: 2022.234
Acquired: 2022
Credit line: Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt
Edition: Vintage
Department: collection

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Diane Arbus, Child selling plastic orchids at night, N.Y.C. 1963, 1963, printed 1965–1966. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm) Image: 10 1/8 × 9 1/8 in. (25.7 × 23.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt 2022.234

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Sixties Surreal 2025-09-24 – 2026-01-19
Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960 2017-04-28 – 2019-06-02
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection 2016-04-02 – 2017-04-02
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner 2015-11-20 – 2016-03-06
America Is Hard to See 2015-05-01 – 2015-09-27
Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography 2005-03-05 – 2005-06-26
Pictures From Within: American Photographs 1958–2002 2003-05-24 – 2003-09-28
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001 2002-06-26 – 2002-09-22
An American Story 1996-03-20 – 1996-09-29

Child selling plastic orchids at night, N.Y.C. 1963

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