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A Family on the Lawn One Sunday in Westchester (Suburban), N.Y.

Diane Arbus

A Family on the Lawn One Sunday in Westchester (Suburban), N.Y.

1968

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Diane Arbus

A Family on the Lawn One Sunday in Westchester (Suburban), N.Y.

1968

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 507 x 407 mm. (19 15/16 x 16 in.) Image: 399 x 391 mm. (15 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number 1988.216
Twentieth Century Master American Photographs, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987

Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.

Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.
Diane Arbus: An Aperature Monograph, New York: Aperture, in conjunction with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, ill. (no pagination) Diane Arbus and Thomas W. Southall, Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, Millerton: Aperture, 1984, pp. 106-7, ill. p. 107 UNVERIFIED

Inscribed: lower right in black ink: "Diane Arbus"; lower center verso in black ink: "a Family on the lawn one sunday. westchester (suburban) N.Y. 1968 adianearbus"; lower right verso in graphite: "DA 164. Y"

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Diane Arbus

born New York, NY 1923; died New York, NY 1971

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