Truman Capote, NY, Irving Penn, vintage gelatin silver print

Truman Capote, NY

Irving Penn

1948

  • Titles Truman Capote, NY (Proper)
  • Artist Irving Penn, American, 1917 - 2009
  • Medium vintage gelatin silver print
  • Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. David Sperling in honor of their friends: Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Erdreich, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Scruggs, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Morris, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Russell, Dr. and Mrs. R. Waid Shelton, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Marx, Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Templeton, Dr. and Mrs. Jimmie Harvey, Dr. and Mrs. Carvel Woodall, Dr. and Mrs. Donald Silberman, Ms. Carole Simpson, Dr. and Mrs. Peter Bunting, Dr. and Mrs. Crawford Owen, Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Garrett, and Mr. John Whitworth, 1991.701
  • Object Name photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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Below a glass top this box construction depicts scenes from mythology in its collage elements on the far corners in the interior of the box. Blue and white paint command the center of the interior panel. Vertical and horizontal axis lines are also drawn on the interior. The inside contains blue sand and shell fragments. The exterior of the box construction is collaged printed paper that has been painted blue.
This watercolor represents a dry docked boat at the right of the composition. The boat is not entirely represented, but is instead cropped by the edge of the sheet. There is a ladder leaning against the side of the boat, and two posts prominently standing in the foreground. Behind the boat is a calm body of water, on which another boat can partially be seen. In the distance is a house and a loose green passage, alluding to a landscape.
Woman in traditional Italian peasant costume kneeling before a wayside shrine to the Virgin Mary in the Campagna outside Rome. Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct visible in the lower left corner of the composition. The dome of St. Peter's Basilica can be seen in the distant skyline.
Untitled, Seymour Lipton, oil crayon on paper