Martha Graham, New York

Photography and Media

March 20, 1948, printed c. 1948

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Martha Graham, 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 1948
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Edition: of 12
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: ..; inscribed verso: MARTHA GRAHAM / (NEW YORK, MAR. 20, 1948) [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 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 12.; inscribed verso: Print made near to date of / photographic sitting. / I.P.
Dimensions: Image: 24.4 × 19.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.200
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 69, cat. 28, pl. 21.

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 (Chicago only). (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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