A Street in Weisswald
Irving Petlin
1987
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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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