
Art Institute of Chicago
Cuzco Children, Cuzco, Peru
Irving Penn · 1948, printed December 1976
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
Exhibition history
- 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)
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration," January 20–May 6, 2007. (Elizabeth Siegel and Newell G. Smith)
- Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris)
Literature
Published references
- Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. p. 99. (other print of this image)
- Lyons, Nathan. 1967. "Photography in the Twentieth Century." Exh. cat. National Gallery of Canada/George Eastman House. p. 56. (other print of this image)
- Penn, Irving. 1974. “Worlds in a Small Room.” Grossman Publishers. p. 13. (other print of this image)
- Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin. 1975. “I platini di Irving Penn: 25 anni di fotografia.” Exh. cat. Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna/Ages Arti Grafiche. p. 29. (other print of this image)
- Marlborough Gallery, New York. 1977. “Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals, Images 1947–1975.” Exh. cat. Marlborough Gallery. n.pag., cat. 78. (other print of this image)
- Nash, Graham. 1978. "The Graham Nash Collection." Exh. cat. de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum/Nash Press. p. 68, fig. 114. (other print of this image)
- Szarkowski, John. 1984. "Irving Penn." Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 59. (other print of this image)
- Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. 1990. “Other Ways of Being: 100 Photographs, 1948–1971.” Exh. cat. Pace/MacGill Gallery. pl. 4. (other print of this image)
- Penn, Irving. 1991. "Passage: A Work Record." Knopf. p. 61. (other print of this image)
- Fraser, Kennedy. 1992. “On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue.” Exh. cat. New York Public Library/Random House. p. 79. (other print of this image)
- Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 177, cat. 37.
- Penn, Irving. 2004. “A Notebook at Random.” Bulfinch Press. p. 91. (other print of this image)
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