Artist
Irving Petlin
American, 1934–2018
Irving Petlin was an American artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Irving Petlin was born in Chicago.
Irving Petlin was an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists and for his work in the "series form" in which he employed the raw materials of pastel, oil paint and unprimed linen, and found inspiration in the work of writers and poets including Primo Levi, Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, Michael Palmer and Edmond Jabès.
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