Woman with Umbrella, New York
Artist
Irving Penn
(American, 1917 - 2009)
Date1950; printed 1984
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 × 14 1/4 inches (38.1 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4064
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Back of Mount
Copyright
(c) 1950, renewed 1978
Back of Mount
Description: Conde Nast copyright notice
Numbered
"ref: 12954"
Back of Mount
On View
On viewGallery Location
- L10
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DescriptionImage of a woman (model is Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn) wearing a wide brimmed hat, long white gloves, and a dark short-sleeved dress with a tall collar and a white scarf loosely gathered around her neck. She stands with her hands on her hips as she holds an umbrella diagonally across her torso.Gallery LabelA longtime contributor to Vogue magazine, Irving Penn is a photographic icon in his own right. Many of his best-known fashion photographs are remarkably abstract, evoking the aura of high style rather than precisely describing specific items of clothing. The sophisticated artistic vision of this photograph - at once dynamic and restrained, descriptive and mysterious - gives it visual interest that far transcends its original advertising function. This is one of Penn's favorite models, his wife Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.
Copyright© The Irving Penn Foundation / Matthew Krejcarek
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