Jul 14
Candy Darling On Her Deathbed, Peter Hujar, 1973
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. – Saint Louis Art Museum
