Irving Petlin

1934 — 2018

American artist (1934–2018)

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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Reservoir

Irving Petlin Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Burning of Los Angeles

Irving Petlin Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The House at Mille-Life

Irving Petlin Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Plague

Irving Petlin Yale University Art Gallery

Christ in Asia

Irving Petlin Yale University Art Gallery

Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Rachel

Irving Petlin Whitney Museum of American Art

Rubbing from the calcium Garden↵(Frottis prélevé dans le jardin de calcium)

Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Meadlo

The Calcium Garden: Tongue on Stick

Irving Petlin Detroit Institute of Arts

From the Series: Rubbings from the Calcium Garden . . . Firechildren

Heads... Death Face

Heads... Homage to an Uncle

Heads... Mask

Heads... Mask II

Clay Lake, Morning Sundown

Instructions to Man

Irving Petlin Yale University Art Gallery

Songs of the Water Child

Irving Petlin San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Rubbings from the Calcium Garden...Maryan

Irving Petlin National Gallery of Art

At the Equator....A Song from Memory

Disappeared

Irving Petlin Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts