id: 160299 accession number: 1998.177 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.177 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:35.789000 Duchess of Windsor, New York, May 27, 1948, May 27, 1948. Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.3 x 19.6 cm (9 9/16 x 7 11/16 in.); paper: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1998.177 © Condé Nast Publications title: Duchess of Windsor, New York, May 27, 1948 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: May 27, 1948 creation date earliest: 1948 creation date latest: 1948 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: © Condé Nast Publications --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Irving Penn (American, 1917–2009) - artist Irving Penn American, 1917- Irving Penn (born in Plainfield, New Jersey) is one of this country's best known fashion and advertising photographers. He studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, attending design classes taught by Alexey Brodovitch, the influential art director for Harper's Bazaar. After graduating in 1938, Penn worked as a graphic artist and designer in New York, then spent a year painting in Mexico. In 1943 he returned to New York and began designing photographic covers for Vogue. Soon he was photographing the covers himself, as well as producing fashion and still-life images for the magazine. He began making portraits for Vogue in 1946 and over the years photographed numerous celebrities. It was his revolutionary series of photographs of the 1950 Paris collections for Vogue, however, that brought Penn his first great success. Avoiding the usual elaborate settings, he placed his models instead in a bare studio against a plain backdrop, focusing great care on pose and gesture. About this time Penn also began a major personal project photographing nudes and experimenting with photographic printmaking. Since the early 1950s Penn has produced advertising photographs for American and international clients in addition to his Vogue assignments and the yearly photographic essays he began in 1961 for Look magazine (1961-67). Among his most recent personal photographs are platinum prints of animal skulls. Penn's work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1961, 1975, 1984), the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1963), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1977), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1991), as well as in many group shows. He lives in New York. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 24.3 x 19.6 cm (9 9/16 x 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 40 support materials: inscriptions: inscription: written in pencil on verso: "Duchess of Windsor/ New York May 27, 1948/ Irving Penn (signed); (early print) I.P." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, March 30 - Aug. 19, 1990: "Irving Penn: Master Images: The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery," exhibition catalogue no. 78.', 'opening_date': '1990-03-30T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 22, 1997 - Feb. 1, 1998: "Irving Penn: A Career in Photography," exhibition catalogue', 'opening_date': '1997-11-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Cleveland Indian Arrives at the CMA,” November 27, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4223 --- IMAGES