Mud Glove, New York

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Copied Irving Penn, Mud Glove, New York, 1975, printed 1976, platinum-palladium print, sheet and image: 29 7⁄8 × 22 1⁄4 in. (75.9 × 56.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1988.83.39, © The Irving Penn Foundation

Artwork Details

Title
Mud Glove, New York
Artist
Date
1975, printed 1976
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 29 7⁄8 × 22 1⁄4 in. (75.9 × 56.5 cm)
Copyright
© The Irving Penn Foundation
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Mediums Description
platinum-palladium print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — New York
  • Dress — accessory — glove
Object Number
1988.83.39
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1988.83.39

Artwork Description

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned almost seventy years, Penn worked across multiple genres from celebrity portraits to fashion, from still lives to images of native cultures in remote places of the world. Throughout his career Penn also worked on a series of photographs of discarded objects: things that had been lost, neglected, or misused. Printed in platinum, these detailed photographs of objects such as a lost glove found in the gutter are Penn’s photographic memento mori, offering beauty compromised by age or disuse.


A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013