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Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea

Irving Penn

1970, printed 1978

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Medium

platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1978

Dimensions

image: 49.53 × 49.37 cm (19 1/2 × 19 7/16 in.) sheet (visible): 51.28 × 51.28 cm (20 3/16 × 20 3/16 in.) overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.71

About the Artist

Irving Penn

Irving Penn (1917–2009), born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents Harry Penn and Sonia Greenberg, grew up in a family that included his younger brother, acclaimed film director Arthur Penn. From 1934 to 1938, he attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now University of the Arts), where he studied drawing, painting, graphics, and industrial arts under t...

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