Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018. Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral... Read full biography
Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018. Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral commitment to document inhumanity — during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East and on the streets of... Read full biography
Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018. Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral commitment to document inhumanity — during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East and on the streets of Paris and Los Angeles, among other examples — died on Sept. 1 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. He was 83. His wife, Sarah, said the cause was liver cancer. He lived most of the year... Read full biography
Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018. Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral commitment to document inhumanity — during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East and on the streets of Paris and Los Angeles, among other examples — died on Sept. 1 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. He was 83. His wife, Sarah, said the cause was liver cancer. He lived most of the year in Paris and spent his summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Mr. Petlin strove to preserve history in a style that was neither realistic nor abstract. Rather than depict brutal events graphically, he re-imagined them with subtlety and surrealism. “He was... Read full biography
Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83, The New York Times, Obituary by Richard Sandomir, Sept. 7, 2018. Irving Petlin, whose idiosyncratic paintings and pastels reflected a moral commitment to document inhumanity — during the Vietnam War, in the Middle East and on the streets of Paris and Los Angeles, among other examples — died on Sept. 1 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts. He was 83. His wife, Sarah, said the cause was liver cancer. He lived most of the year in Paris and spent his summers on Martha’s Vineyard. Mr. Petlin strove to preserve history in a style that was neither realistic nor abstract. Rather than depict brutal events graphically, he re-imagined them with subtlety and surrealism. “He was totally un-classifiable,” John Yau, a poet and critic, who has written about and interviewed Mr. Petlin, said in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (15)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Irving Petlin New Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Schapiro, David
25 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
Irving Petlin Recent Paintings and Pastels (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Kozloff, Max
25 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Chicago, The City and Its Artists 1945-1978 (Exhibition catalog)