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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.

Selected exhibitions
• 2014 "The Still Open Case of Irving Petlin". Kent Fine Art, New York • 2014 "Paris Show": Galerie Jacques Leegenhoek • 2012 Irving Petlin: Storms: After Redon. Kent Fine Art, New York • 2010 Irving Petlin: Major Paintings, 1979-2009. Kent Gallery, New York • 2007 Orpheus, Pastels. Galerie Ditesheim, FIAC, Paris • 2006 Este Mundo. Kent Gallery, New York • 2002 Irving Petlin. Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland • 2001 Out of the Shadows. School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston • 1998 A Tribute to Meyer Schapiro. Jan Krugier Gallery, New York • 1997 Le Monde D’Edmond Jabes, Pastels. Krugier-Ditesheim Art Contemporain, Geneva • 1996 Paris is White. Kent Gallery, New York • 1995 Irving Petlin: 1955-1995, Disegni nacosti. Studio d’ Arte Recalcati, Turin, Italy • 1993 Swiat Brunona Shulza. Galerie Kordegarda, Varsovie, Poland • 1992 Memories Drawn from Bruno Schulz and Others. Kent Gallery, New York • 1990 Israel in Egypt. Kent Fine Art, New York • 1990 The Periodic Table. Gallery 400, University of Chicago, IL • 1990 Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art. Barbican Art Gallery London, England • 1989 A Different War: Vietnam in Art. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. Curated by Lucy Lippard. • 1988 Pastels 1961-1987. Kent Fine Art, New York, NY • 1987 Weisswald. Kent Fine Art, New York • 1982 Irving Petlin: Recent Paintings and Pastels. Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK • 1982 The Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy • 1981 Drawings from the Studio, 1972-1981. University of California at Santa Cruz • 1980 Irving Petlin, Pastels. Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris • 1978 Rubbings (Large Paintings, Small Pastels). Neuberger Museum-SUNY, Purchase, NY & Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Il • 1977 Galleria Bergamini, Milan, Italy • 1974 Documenta, Torino, Italy • 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum New York, NY • 1972 Galleria Bergamini, Milan, Italy • 1968 Irving Petlin: Opere recent. Galleria Il Fante Di Spade, Rome, Italy • 1967 Odyssia Gallery, New York • 1966 Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles • 1965 Petlin Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium • 1964 American Show, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL • 1963 Petlin: Peintures 1962-1963. Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France • 1961 Paris Biennal, American Section. Paris, France • 1960 Petlin, Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France • 1958 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA • 1956 Cliffdweller Gallery, Chicago, IL • 1954 Exhibition Momentum. Chicago, IL • 1953-56 Art Institute, Chicago, IL ==References==
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