Ta Tooin (The Bowery, New York)

Photography and Media

c. 1939, printed 1983

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Ta Tooin (The Bowery, 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 1938–1944
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Edition: of 28
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: Ref. 14032; inscribed verso: TA TOOIN / THE BOWERY, NEW YORK, C. 1939 [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1948–Renewed 1976 by / IRVING PENN / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE / PHOTOGRAPHER.; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 28.; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]; inscribed verso: Print made 1983. / IP.; stamped verso: TONED IN SELENIUM.
Dimensions: Image: 30.4 × 26.7 cm (12 × 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.185
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Printemps des Artes de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. 1986. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Printemps des Artes de Monte-Carlo. pl. 60. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 12. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 175, cat. 6.

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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