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

1967, printed 1979–1980

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 46.83 × 49.85 cm (18 7/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
    sheet (visible): 49.53 × 51.44 cm (19 1/2 × 20 1/4 in.)
    overall: 66.04 × 76.2 × 1.27 cm (26 × 30 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.68

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64155391

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