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1934 Chicago, Illinois - 2018 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Known for: Abstract inhumanity, war-themed image painting, pastel specialty.
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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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •France After 1900
- •Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Art Association
- •The Monster Roster-Imagist
Art Teacher
- •Josef Albers
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Pastel Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art