Summer Sleep, New York

Photography and Media

1949, printed 1984

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Summer Sleep, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1949
Medium: Dye imbibition print
Edition: of 29
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: REF. 5002 ; inscribed verso: .. ; inscribed verso: SUMMER SLEEP / (NEW YORK, 1949) [in a box] ; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1949 - Renewed 1977 by / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC. / not to be reproduced without / written permission of the copyright owner. ; signed and tamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle] ; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED PRINTS OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / NOT EXCEEDING 29. ; signed and inscribed verso: DYE TRANSFER PRINT MADE 1985. / IP:.
Dimensions: Image: 40 × 57 cm (15 3/4 × 22 1/2 in.); Paper: 50.8 × 60.8 cm (20 × 23 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.230
Copyright: Copyright Condé Nast Publications, Inc.

Liberman, Alexander. 1951. “The Art and Technique of Color Photography.” Simon and Schuster. pp. 12–13, cat. 12. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1960. “Moments Preserved.” Simon and Schuster. pp. 122–23. (other print of this image)
Szarkowski, John. 1984. “Irving Penn.” Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society Books. pl. 99. (other print of this image)
Penn, Irving. 1991. “Passage: A Work Record.” Knopf. p. 79. (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. 109. (other print of this image)
Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 100, cat. 45, pl. 51.
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. (Colin Westerbeck)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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