Artwork includes pencil sketches; a 1968 sketchbook entitled, "Drawings and Studies for 'The Garden of Mille;'" a piece of the circa 1968 Peace Tower collaboration with Mark di Suvero and other artists; and the 1974 Premio Campigna award for modern art.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
Photographic material includes black and white installation images from Gallery Rebecca Cooper in 1976 and Neuberger Museum in 1978; a color snapshot of Petlin in a studio in circa 1977; and a black and white photograph and two negatives of Petlin's work from the circa 1970s.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from Godula Buchholz of Galerie Buchholz)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from Noma Copley and Paul Cummings)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from the Galleria Odyssia and Leon Golub)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from Hans Haacke and Jon Hendricks)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
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Collection Citation:
Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes a holiday card from Red Grooms and letters from Mario Roncaglia)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes a letter from Peter Selz and correspondence with James Speyer)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from Clayton Eschleman, editor of Sulfur)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
(includes letters from Ben E. Watkins and Joanna Beall Westermann)
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
Writings include drafts of letters regarding Petlin's use of the pastel and to the 1975 New York Times editor, Hilton Kramer; a Eulogy for Petlin's friend, Sam; a draft and final copy of Petlin's juror response to the Art Institute of Chicago's 76th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity; lists of names and address for petitions and statements, and lists of Petlin's paintings and professional activities from 1952-1971; a 1981 manuscript for Michael Palmer's "Notes for Echo Lake" that included an illustration by Petlin; notes and notebooks detailing Petlin's artistic process; a 1975 notebook entitled, "Drawings for the August Tide;" a 1984 notebook entitled, "Notes for the Double Life;" a petition calling for Picasso to remove his work, "Guernica" from MoMA in 1970; petitions and statements regarding Art Forum and the Whitney Museum; and an undated statement on Israel and Palestine.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
Project files include materials documenting two projects. The first project, 2007 poster designs protesting George Bush and the Iraq War, include sketches and photocopied photographs, printed emails, and notes. Some of the sketches were drawn on cocktail napkins. The second project, "The Double Life of Amphibians," documents a play by Morton Subtonic with paintings and visual supervision by Petlin. Included are annotated stage and visual directions; annotated sketches of the stage; and Petlin's handwritten notes with sketches.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
Printed material includes blank postcards collected by Petlin; published books that feature illustrations by Petlin, mention Petlin's works, or were given to and inscribed by Petlin's friends, including a signed copy of Peter Selz's, "Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945;" clippings reviewing Petlin's work and exhibitions, and documenting the violence in Central America in the late 1970s and early 1980s; photocopied clippings saved by Hayden Gallery from 1970-1980 and saved by Kent Fine Art from 1960-1991; exhibition announcements between 1970 and 2014; group and solo exhibition catalogs that document Petlin's career from 1962-2014; two sets of 10 licenses in envelopes created by the Guerilla Action Group (GAAG); periodicals that include articles about Petlins work from 1970-1987; a press release from a 1979 Odyssia Gallery exhibition of pastels; 1976 exhibition and protest posters; and a 1988 United States Supreme Court brief in Support of Gregory Lee Johson by Petlin and other artists.
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Irving Petlin papers, 1952-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
