Lorry Washers, London

Photography and Media

1950, printed January 1977

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Lorry Washers, London
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 1950
Medium: Platinum-palladium print
Edition: 28 of 36
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “P1249 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “LORRY WASHERS, LONDON 1950”; inscribed verso: “Platinum-palladium / Print made January 1977”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / HAND COATED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “28/36 [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1951 by The Conde Nast Publications Ltd / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 36 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 6 may exist. / I.P.”
Dimensions: Image: 49.2 × 37.5 cm (19 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.); Paper: 57.2 × 46.8 cm (22 9/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.266
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Ltd.

Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. p. 168. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1974. “Worlds in a Small Room.” Grossman Publishers. p. 17. (other print of this image)
Museum Ludwig. 1984. “Sammlung Gruber: Photographie des 20. Jarhunderts.” Exh. cat. Museum Ludwig. p. 339. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 99. (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. 203. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 180, cat. 70.
Heckert, Virginia and Anne Lacoste. 2009. “Irving Penn: Small Trades.” Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum. pl. 84. (other print of this image)

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)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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