Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York

Photography and Media

1949, printed July 1979

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Girl Drinking (Mary Jane Russell), New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1949
Medium: Platinum-palladium-iridium print
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “865 / .. [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPHED IN NEW YORK, 1949 IRVING PENN”; inscribed verso: “GIRL DRINKING (MJR) [in a box]”; inscribed verso “8/25”; inscribed verso: “Rives Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and printing / 1 [in a circle] Platinum-palladium / 2 [in a circle] Platinum-iridium / Print made July 1979.”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1949 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without written permission of the copyright owner.”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist.”
Dimensions: 52 × 49.2 cm (20 1/2 × 19 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.228
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. p. 143. (other print of this image)
Hall-Duncan, Nancy. 1979. “The History of Fashion Photography.” Exh. cat. International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House/Alpine Book Company. p. 150. (other print of this image)
Szarkowski, John. 1984. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 41. (other print of this image)
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. 26, cat. 13. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 76. (other print of this image)
Photology. 1992. “Irving Penn: People in Passage.” Photology. p. 67. (other print of this image)
Lundström, Jan-Erik. 1995. “Irving Penn fotografier: en donation till mine av Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn/Irving Penn Photographs: A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.” Exh. cat. Moderna Museet/Raster Förlag. p. 107. (other print of this image/variant in gelatin silver)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 127, cat. 43, pl. 77.
Penn, Irving. 2004. “A Notebook at Random.” Bulfinch Press. p. 113. (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. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today,” July 11–September 20, 2009. (Christopher Monkhouse)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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