Oliver Smith, Jane Bowles & Paul Bowles, New York

Photography and Media

May 23, 1947, printed c. 1947

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Oliver Smith, Jane Bowles & Paul Bowles, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1947
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Stamped and inscribed verso: REF. 3206; inscribed verso: OLIVER SMITH / JANE AND PAUL BOWLES / NEW YORK, MAY 23, 1947 [in a box] ; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1960, by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. ; 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 near to date of / photographic sitting. / IP.
Dimensions: Image: 24.4 × 19.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.196
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. p. 147. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 36. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 134, cat. 16, fig. 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)
London, England, National Portrait Gallery, “Irving Penn Portraits,” February 18–May 30, 2010; traveled to the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, July 1-September 19, 2010. (Magda Keaney)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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