Vogue Luggage, New York

Photography and Media

March 24, 1948, printed 1985

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Vogue Luggage, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1948
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: 13989 ; inscribed verso: VOGUE EDITORIAL STILL LIFE, LUGGAGE / (NEW YORK, 1948) [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1948 – Renewed 1976 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 10. ; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle] ; inscribed verso: Print made 1985. / I.P.; inscribed verso: Toned in selenium.
Dimensions: Image: 24.6 × 19.4 cm (9 11/16 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.227
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 81, cat. 35, pl. 32.

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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