Underfoot II
August-September 2000, printed February 2001
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 49.2 × 50.2 cm (19 3/8 × 19 3/4 in.) sheet: 50.2 × 56.6 cm (19 3/4 × 22 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt
Accession Number
2018.186.2
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...