Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window
<p>Peter Hujar, <em>Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window</em>, 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</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 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)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Peter Hujar
Artist
Photography
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits. Hujar's work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Peter Hujar
- Year
- 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)
- Watts ID
- WW-1963-175183
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified