Diane Arbus
Untitled (6)

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© Estate of Diane Arbus

Untitled (6)
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ArtistAmerican, 1923–1971
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled (6)
Date1970–1971, printed later
Place depictedUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 14 5/8 in. (37.5 × 37.1 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 16 in. (50.3 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Gay Block Collection, gift of Gay Block
Object number2001.754
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionDiane Arbus’s honest and intimate photographs of people on the margins of society reveal what is extraordinary in the familiar and familiar in the extraordinary. During the last two years of her life, she photographed residents at two institutions for the developmentally disabled, most often outdoors and in moments of joy. Of the girl in the foreground here, Arbus wrote, “She bent her head to her knees and with an odd shiver somehow the rest of her followed in what looked like the first somersault.”
ProvenanceGay Block, Santa Fe, New Mexico; given to MFAH, 2001.
Exhibition History"Acquisitions of the Last Five Years: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 15–October 15, 2005.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower center in pencil: RMG#A9010.258-0; upper left: 43


verso top right in ink: Doon Arbus
verso two stamps:
Copyright © 1972 / The Estate of Diane Arbus
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / This image may not be reproduced in any/way whatsoever without written permission / from The Estate of Diane Arbus
verso top right a stamp with additions in ink: A Diane Arbus photograph 35/75 / title UNTITLED(6) / print by Neil Selkirk[stamp] / Doon Arbus

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