Rock Groups (Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead), San Francisco, 1967

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Medium

platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1979/1980

Dimensions

overall: 47.9 x 50 cm (18 7/8 x 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Accession Number

2002.119.68

Artists / Makers

Irving Penn (artist) American, 1917 - 2009

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Inscription

center verso in graphite: 2423 (circled) / Rock Groups (San Francisco) 1967 (underlined) / Big Brother and the Holding Company / and / The Grateful Dead / Rives Paper on aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum-palladium / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made December 1979-January 1980; right of center: 17/50; artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1974; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; stamp: In addition to 50 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of [blank] may exist.; upper right in graphite: JPW

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Penn, Irving