Irving Petlin

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Irving Petlin
Petlin at Kent Fine Art in New York, 2015
Born(1934-12-17)December 17, 1934
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedSeptember 1, 2018(2018-09-01) (aged 83)
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationArt Institute of Chicago 1953-1956. Yale University, MFA, 1960
Known forPainting, Pastel
MovementChicago Imagist
Website[1]

Irving Petlin (December 17, 1934 – September 1, 2018) was an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists (including Mark di Suvero and Leon Golub) and for his work in the "series form"[1] 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.[2]

Petlin attended the

UCLA as a visiting artist, along with artists Richard Diebenkorn and Llyn Foulkes
.

While in

Palais des Beaux Arts
in Brussels. Shortly thereafter, he returned to New York City with his family and moved into an apartment on West 11th Street. At this time, his growing commitment to the American milieu resulted in the completion of the painting The Burning of Los Angeles. During this period, Petlin Was a founder and a participant in Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam. He also toom part in the Art Workers Coalition, the Art Strike, the Moratorium and the Venice Biennale.

The Burning of Los Angeles (1965–1967)

(Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)

From the 1960s, when he became one of the founding members of "Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam," Petlin was a leader in

political activism by visual artists. He created the iconic anti-Vietnam War poster And babies in 1969. Petlin continued his militant interventions after the 1960s through such activities as his participation in the "Artists' Call Against the U.S. Intervention in Central America".[3] Petlin taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Cooper Union in New York, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.[4]
He lived in Paris, New York and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

Petlin died of liver cancer in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts on September 1, 2018, at the age of 83.[5]

Selected exhibitions

References

  1. ^ Palmer, Michael. Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks. New York: New Directions Publishing, 2008. p. 164
  2. ^ a b "Irving Petlin: A retrospective". Absolutearts.com. 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
  3. ^ International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy Archived November 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ III, Everette Hatcher (2017-01-12). "FRANCIS SCHAEFFER ANALYZES ART AND CULTURE PART 146, John Hospers Part B this post includes portion of 6-2-94 letter from Hospers to me blasting Christian Evangelicalism,(Featured artist is Irving Petlin )". The Daily Hatch. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
  5. ^ "Irving Petlin, Artist Who Recorded Injustice, Dies at 83". The New York Times. September 7, 2018.
  6. ^ "Home". kentfineart.net.
  7. ^ "New Irving Petlin Show in Paris".

External links

Petlin sites and artist page

*https://irvingpetlin.com

Others on Petlin, including reviews & perspectives
Petlin in his own words
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