Irving Petlin
American, 1934-2018
Semetic Garden...A Young Man
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Irving Petlin
American, 1934-20181972
Semetic Garden...A Young Man
Irving Petlin American, 1934-2018 →pastelpaper
Date
1972
Medium
Pastel on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
66 × 49 cm (26 × 19 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Odyssia Skouras
The art historian and fellow School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) alum Franz Schulze once called Irvin Petlin “one of the most gifted members of the mid-fifties Art Institute generation. [His] is possibly the most oblique, magical, eerie and difficult to read of all recent Chicago art.” While attending SAIC from 1953 to 1956, Petlin came to reject abstraction, claiming “it was missing the human imprint; there were no faces to look at, there were no eyes staring back.” In the early 1970s Petlin began working in pastels, creating the series The Semitic Garden, from which this work comes.
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