About the Artwork
Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C.
1962, printed later
Diane Arbus
1923-1971
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 3/4 × 14 3/4 inches (37.5 × 37.5 cm) Sheet: 19 7/8 × 16 inches (50.5 × 40.6 cm)
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Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection
2021.327
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Markings
Signed, verso: Doon Arbus
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Marked, stamp, in black ink, upper left, verso: Not to be reproduced in any way without | written permission from Doon Arbus. Marked, stamp, in black ink, upper right, verso: A Diane Arbus photograph | title [in black pen and ink] CHILD WITH A TOY HAND GRENADE | IN CENTRAL PARK, N.Y.C. 1962 | print by [in black pen and ink] NEIL SELKIRK | Doon Arbus
Provenance
Lila Silverman [1934-2020] (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
2021-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Arbus, Doon, and Marvin Israel, ed. Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph. Millerton, 1972, no. 50.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2001–2002 60, no. 2 (Fall 2002): pp. 42-43.
Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York, 2003, pp. 104-105, 164, 208.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 446.
Rosenheim, Jeff L. Diane Arbus: in the beginning. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2016, p. 257.
Hermanson Meister, Sarah. Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967. New York, 2017, p. 62.
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Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962, printed later, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2021.327.
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