Diane Arbus | Russian midget friends in a living room on 100th Street, N.Y.C.

Title: Russian midget friends in a living room on 100th Street, N.Y.C.

Artist: Diane Arbus (American, New York 1923–1971 New York)

Date: 1963

Medium: Gelatin silver print

Dimensions: Image: 39 x 37.5 cm (15 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

Classification: Photographs

Credit Line: Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, Diana Barrett and Robert Vila, Elizabeth S. and Robert J. Fisher, Charlotte and Bill Ford, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust and Hazen Polsky Foundation Inc., Jennifer and Joseph Duke, Jennifer and Philip Maritz, Saundra B. Lane, The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation and Pamela and Arthur Sanders, Anonymous, and The Judith Rothschild Foundation Gifts, 2007

Accession Number: 2007.509

Rights and Reproduction: © The Estate of Diane Arbus

Inscription: Signed and inscribed in pencil and ink by artist, verso BL to BR: “diane arbus midget friends in the living room NYC 1962 [sic] 1963”; inscribed in pencil in hand of MoMA registrar, verso BRC: “72.494 (1)”

Diane Arbus; Estate of Diane Arbus; [Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco]

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," October 24, 2008–February 1, 2009.

Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, ed. Diane Arbus. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1972. no. 1.

Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, ed. Diane Arbus: Magazine Work. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1984. p. 165.

Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York: Random House, 2003. pp. 100–101.

Hermanson Meister, Sarah. Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967. New York, 2017. p. 61.

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