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H. L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan, New York by Irving Penn — VisualArtsDB

H. L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan, New York

H. L. Mencken & George Jean Nathan, New York

1947

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 49.5 × 39.7 cm (19 1/2 × 15 11/16 in.); Mount: 60.9 × 50.6 cm (24 × 19 15/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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