Candy Darling on Her Deathbed
- Photographer
- Peter Hujar, American, 1934–1987
- Depicted
- Candy Darling, American, 1944–1974
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 14 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (37.1 × 37.1 cm)
sheet: 19 7/8 in. × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons; and funds given by the Marian Cronheim Trust for Prints and Drawings, Museum Purchase, Friends Endowment Fund, The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund, and the Eliza McMillan Purchase Fund
- Rights
- © Estate of Peter Hujar
- Object Number
- 731:2020
NOTES
Peter Hujar captured the people and streets of what made New York distinctive to him in the 1970s. Candy’s portrait, made at her invitation, shows the transgender icon at the end of her life, dying of lymphoma in a hospital. The majesty of the flowers, the lighting, and her own carefully-applied makeup speak to the intention around the creation of this work. Hujar unflinchingly confronts her pain and the inevitability of mortality with his own characteristic precision and humanity.
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