American, Jewish · 1934–2018
Irving Petlin
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.
Clay Lake, Morning Sundown
1975 · Art Institute of Chicago
Skin from Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam
1967 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art
Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Maryan
1977 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art
Untitled (The Christ Child)
mid 1950s · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Me and
1954 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Wandering
1954 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Gamblers Celebration
1955 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Skin
1967 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
S.M.S. issue #1 (Deluxe Edition)
New York: Letter Edged in Black Press, February 1968 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Rachel
1969 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Meadlo
1970 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Semetic Garden...A Young Man
1972 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
Study of the Dustblower for the Revolution Pastoral
1976 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
Joseph
1979 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art
At the Equator....A Song from Memory
1981 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago
The Restless Man (A Study)
1983 · Not on view · Minneapolis Institute of Art