Underfoot XXI, New York

Photography and Media

August/September 2000, printed February 28, 2001

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Underfoot XXI, New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 2000
Medium: Gelatin silver print; edition of 6
Inscriptions: Stamped and inscribed verso, upper left, in black ink: “REF. 19853”; inscribed verso, center, in black ink: “·· E”; inscribed verso, center, in black ink: “UNDERFOOT XXI / (NEW YORK, AUG–SEPT. 2000) [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso, center, in black ink: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 2000 by Irving Penn / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of / photographer”; signed and stamped verso, lower right, in black ink: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: “Print made Feb 29, 2001. / IP.”; stamped verso, lower center, in black ink: “TONED IN: SELENIUM”; stamped and inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink: “VASILIOS ZATSE COLLABORATED CLOSELY IN / MAKING THE PRINT / IP.”; inscribed and stamped verso, lower right, in black ink: “6. SIGNED SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE, WITH VARIATIONS / IP.”
Dimensions: 39.2 × 38.9 cm (image); 44.4 × 40 cm (paper)
Credit Line: Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation in memory of James Wood
Reference Number: 2011.389
Copyright: Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Underfoot: Photographs by Irving Penn,” July 10–November 28, 2004; traveled to San Francisco, California, Fraenkel Gallery, January 6–March 5, 2005; and New York, New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, October 6–November 5, 2005 (Philadelphia only).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn: Underfoot,” January 17–May 12, 2013. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)

Estate of the artist; by descent to the artist’s son, Tom Penn [who is also the executive director of The Irving Penn Foundation]; given by the Foundation to the Art Institute, 2011.

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