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Irving Penn

(American, 1917–2009)

Irving Penn

Cigarette 42, New York, 1972

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Woman with Roses on her Arm (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in a Lafaurie Dress), Paris, 1950

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Woman with Sunblock, New York, 1966

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Single Oriental Poppy, New York, 1968

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Woman in a Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech, Morocco, 1951

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Irving Penn

Cigarette #17, 1972

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Biography

Timeline

1917: Born in Plainfield, USA
1934 - 1938: Enrolled at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, where he studied design with Alexey Brodovitch
1938 - 1941: Worked as a graphic artist in New York
1941 - 1942: Spent a year painting in Mexico
1943 - 1944: Designer and photographer for Vogue magazine, New York
1944 - 1945: Served as an ambulance driver and documentary photographer in the American Field Service with the British Army in Italy and India
1946: Photographer, working with Alexander Liberman for Conde Nast Publications, New York
1952: Freelance advertising photographer, New York
1958: Named one of "The World's 10 Greatest Photographers" in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography Magazine
2009: Died in New York, USA

Exhibitions

2010: Portraits, The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2009: Small Trades, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2008: Close Encounters, Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA
Tate Modern, London, England
2007: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London, England
2006: Palais des Beaux-Arts / Bozar, Brusells, Belgium
2005: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2004: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
Langhans Galerie Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
2002: Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (solo)
2000: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
1997: Retrospective, State Heritage, St.Petersburg, Russia (solo)
1995: Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (solo)
1993: Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (solo)
1991: Hamiltons Gallery, London, England (solo)
1990: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo)
1985: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
1984 - 1987: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
1984: Vision Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
1983: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1982: Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1981: Ferens Art Gallery, Yorkshire (travelled to the Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Photographers' Gallery, London), England
Marlborough Fine Art, London, England (solo)
1980: Marlborough, New York, USA (solo)
1979: Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria (travelled to the Nueu Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; and Museum des 20, Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria)
1978: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1977: International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York (travelling to the Brooklyn Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Cincinnati Art Institute, Cincinnati; and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg), USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
1976: Masters of the Camera, American Federation of the Arts, New York, USA
1975: Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo, Torino, Italy (solo)
1967 - 1973: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1963: Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (solo)
1961: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
1955: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Public Collections

: FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

Irving Penn

(American, 1917–2009)

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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