Isamu Noguchi, New York

Photography and Media

December 20, 1983, printed 1984

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Isamu Noguchi, 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 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Edition: of 19
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: .. REF 13691; inscribed verso: ISAMU NOGUCHI (B) / (NEW YORK, DEC. 20, 1983) [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1984 by Irving Penn, COURTESY OF VANITY FAIR / 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 19.; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]; inscribed verso: Print made 1984. / IP.; stamped verso: TONED IN SELENIUM.
Dimensions: Image: 38.4 × 38.3 cm (15 1/8 × 15 1/8 in.); Paper: 50.4 × 50.5 cm (19 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.220
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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. 156, cat. 120. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf p. 249. (other print of this image?)
Lundström, Jan-Erik. 1995. “Irving Penn fotografier: en donation till mine av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn/Irving Penn Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.” Exh. cat. Moderna Museet/Raster Förlag. p. 183. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 184, cat. 131.

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)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart,” October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007. (David Travis)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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