A Street in Weisswald

Irving Petlin

1987

Painting of man with head down and arm draped over bar in front of buildings and a giraffe head leaning over the wall next to his cheek.
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Irving Petlin

1934–2018

The work of American artist Irving Petlin has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions since 1971. He is known for his political activism and was a founder of Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam. In 1970, Petlin received a Guggenheim Foundation grant.

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