Creator Bio
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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A Street in Weisswald
Petlin was known for his narrative art and for depicting subjects drawn from his own personal history. Weisswald (White Forest) is a series of nine paintings almost all of which are set on what looks…