About This Artwork

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Cuzco Children, Cuzco, Peru, 1948, printed December 1976

Platinum-palladium print, edition 28/60
49.6 x 50.7 cm (image); 55.9 x 63.3 cm (paper)
Inscribed verso: “CUZCO CHILDREN”; inscribed verso: “1369 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple Coating and Printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / Print made December 1976”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 60 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 30 may exist.”; inscribed verso: “28/60”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1960 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”
Restricted gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1977.913

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography,” November 23, 1997-February 1, 1999, Rice Building; traveled to St. Petersburg, The Hermitage, March 15—May 17, 1998, Hamburg, Germany, The Deichtorhallen, June 18-September 6, 1998, Munich, Germany, Muncher Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998-February 21, 1999, San Francisco, California, The Friends of Photography, The Ansel Adams Center, July 27-October 10, 1999, Tokyo, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 11,1999-January 23, 2000, Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, March 25-June 4, 2000, Paris France, Maison Européene de la Photographie, September 12-November 12, 2000 (Colin Westerbeck)

AIC, "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration", January 20 - May 6, 2007, (Elizabeth Siegel and Newell G. Smith) Gallery 1

Publication History

George Eastman House and Nathan Lyons. 1967. "Photography in the Twentieth Century." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Canada and the George Eastman House of Photography/George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. p. 56. (non-AIC)

Nash, Graham, Susan Nash, and Graham Howe. 1978. "The Graham Nash Collection." Exh. cat. Nas Press, Los Angeles. p. 68, fig. 114. (non-AIC)

Penn, Irving. 1991. "Passage: A Work Record." Irving Penn with the collaboration of Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi; introduction by Alexander Liberman; produced by Nicholas Callaway. New York: Knopf. p. 61.

Fraser, Kennedy. 1992. "On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue." Random House, New York. p. 79. (non-AIC)

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago and Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. cat. 37. pg. 177.