Irving Penn art links 

Original works by Irving Penn available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Irving Penn
A list of Penn's books in and out of print, and nothing else

 

Art Institute of Chicago

Irving Penn at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Nude No. 1, 1949-50

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Irving Penn in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Irving Penn

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba   NEW!

 

Masters of Photography

 

Photo Seminars Online

Vogue Magazine
Rather huge portrait of the novelist Colette

 

Answers.com reference works  
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Irving Penn  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

ARTnews
"Irving Penn's Modern Venus"

The New York Times
Obituary for the artist, who passed away October 7, 2009

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Irving Penn: Platinum Prints look inside The Art of Being You look inside Irving Penn: A Career in Photography look inside Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000