New York Times Art Review

The Exhalted, Captured but Not Bowed
by Karen Rosenberg












Colette, Paris, 1951
Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers
at the Morgan Library
Photograph taken from the New York Times

Last spring, in its first foray into modern photography, the Morgan Library & Museum acquired 67 of Penn’s portraits of artists, writers and musicians. (Thirty-five were donated by Mr. Penn.) The entire group is temporarily on view in “Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers,” which complements the library’s collection of 20th-century drawings, manuscripts, books and musical scores.