Portraits: Portugal, Scotland, Italy, France, New York, Spain, 1961-1965
Irving Penn
1961-1965
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
page size: 41.8 x 34.9 cm (16 7/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Irving Penn
Accession Number
2003.100.8.1-65
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...