Cottage Tulip: Sorbet, New York

Photography and Media

1967, printed 1986

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Cottage Tulip: Sorbet, New York
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1967
Medium: Dye imbibition print; edition of 16
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “..”; inscribed verso: “REF. 15490”; inscribed verso: “COTTAGE TULIP: SORBET / (NEW YORK, 1967) [in a box]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1967 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without written permission of the copyright owner.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “DYE TRANSFER PRINT MADE / 1986.”; inscribed and stamped verso: “SIGNED DYE TRANSFER PRINTS OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / NOT EXCEEDING 16.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 16 signed dye transfer / prints of this image there are also 9 signed, numbered platinum-palladium prints.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]"
Dimensions: 45.5 × 46.3 cm (image); 48.2 × 49.7 cm (paper); 55.9 × 60.7 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.165
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Penn, Irving. 1980. “Flowers.” Harmony Books. p. 25. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 164. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 101, cat. 101, pl. 52.
Penn, Irving. 2001. “Still Life.” Bulfinch Press. n.pag. (other print of this image)

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 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn: A Tribute,” October 31–December 13, 2009. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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