3 Steel Blocks, New York

Photography and Media

April 1980, printed March 1981

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: 3 Steel Blocks, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1980
Medium: Platinum-palladium print
Edition: 22 of 34
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “.. / AR 240 [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “3 STEEL BLOCKS [underlined] / photographed April 1980 (IN NEW YORK)”; inscribed verso: “22/34”; stamped and inscribed verso; “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1981 by / IRVING PENN”; inscribed verso: “Platinum-palladium / Strathmore Paper on Aluminum”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 34 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, a number of unsigned silver prints / for reproduction in publications may exist.”
Dimensions: Image: 33.4 × 53.3 cm (13 3/16 × 21 in.); Paper: 40.6 × 61 cm (16 × 24 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.171
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Marlborough Gallery, New York. 1982. “Irving Penn: Recent Still Life: Negatives 1979–1980, Prints in Platinum Metals 1980–1982.” Exh. cat. Marlborough Gallery. p. 21, cat. 33. (other print of this image)
Szarkowski, John. 1984. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 156. (other print of this image)
Foresta, Merry A. and William F. Stapp. 1990. “Irving Penn: Master Images.” Exh. cat. National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 69, cat. 56. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 163, cat. 125, fig. 2.
Penn, Irving. 2001. “Still Life.” Bulfinch Press. n.pag. (other print of this image)

Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn, A Career in Photography,” November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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