Still Life with Triangle and Eraser, New York

Photography and Media

January 23, 1985, printed 1985

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Still Life with Triangle and Eraser, 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 1985
Medium: Silver dye-bleach print
Edition: of 15
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: STILL LIFE WITH TRIANGLE AND RED ERASER / (NEW YORK, JAN. 23, 1985) ; stamped and inscribed verso: CIBACHROME PRINT MADE 1985 / IP ; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED PRINTS OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH NOT EXCEEDING 15 ; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN/ Copyright © 1985 by / IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer.
Dimensions: 59 × 47 cm (23 1/4 × 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.175
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Sobieszek, Robert A. 1988. “The Art of Persuasion: A History of Advertising Photography.” Exh. cat. Harry N. Abrams. p. 150, pl. 109. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 255. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 82, cat. 132, pl. 33.
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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