Candy Darling on her Deathbed

Item

Title (Dublin Core)
Candy Darling on her Deathbed
Description (Dublin Core)
Hujar’s portrait of Candy shows her in a hospital bed, surrounded by flowers, shortly before she died of cancer at the age of twenty-nine. A single rose lies on the bed by side and Candy adopts a vampish pose, her face heavily made up.
Identifier (Dublin Core)
PH_007
Creator (Dublin Core)
Hujar, Peter
Subject (Dublin Core)
Portrait
Provenance (Dublin Core)
The Abramson Collection. Gift of Stephen and Sandra Abramson.
Source (Dublin Core)
The Modern Museum of Art
Date (Dublin Core)
1973
Medium (Dublin Core)
gelatin silver prints
Format (Dublin Core)
14 3/4 × 14 3/4 inches (37.5 × 37.5 cm)
Type (Dublin Core)
photographs
Coverage (Dublin Core)
New York, NY
Relation (Dublin Core)
Peter Hujar
Candy Darling
Rights (Dublin Core)
Copyright © 2020 The Peter Hujar Archive. All rights reserved.