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| Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty |
23 October 2015 - 20 March 2016
Smithsonian American Art Museum
| Washington, DC, USA |
| The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents the first US retrospective in nearly 20 years of the work of Irving Penn (1917 - 2009), known for his iconic fashion, portrait and still life images that appeared in Vogue magazine. |
| Drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty includes the debut of 100 photographs recently donated to the museum by The Irving Penn Foundation. Also on view for the first time will be Super 8 mm films of Penn in Morocco, made by his wife Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, adding a vivid picture of the artist at work. |
| The exhibition will reveal the full expressive range of Penn’s art, featuring work from all stages of his career: street scenes from the late 1930s, photographs of the American South from the early 1940s, celebrity portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes and more private studio images. |
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Irving Penn, Bee. New York, 1995, printed 2001.
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Promised gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation. | |
