Art Institute of Chicago

Cretan Landscape

Irving Penn · 1964, printed January 1974

Provenance

Ownership history

Marlborough Gallery, New York [then the artist's representative], by September 1977; sold to the Art Institute, 1977.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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)

Literature

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. 49, cat. 36. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. "Passage: A Work Record." Knopf. p. 145. (other print of this image/variant in pigment on porcelainized steel)
Hürlimann, Annemarie. 1994. “Irving Penn: Collection privée/Irving Penn: Privatsammlung.” Exh. cat. Musée d’art et d’histoire/Editions Bentali. p. 61, cat. 39. (other print of this image/variant in pigment on porcelainized steel)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 158, cat. 96, pl. 91.

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