Remembering photographer Irving Penn & Gallerist Jack Tilton
(via Irving Penn-From Hells Angels to Hitchcock.. )
Balthus 
(Photo by Irving Penn)
See portraits of Jean Cocteau, Colette, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Smith by Irving Penn (previous post) here.
The son of a watchmaker and a nurse, Penn was born June 16, 1917, in Plainfield, N.J., and grew up in Philadelphia. His younger brother, Arthur, became a successful movie director with “Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967.
Arthur Penn was his brother – (about the two of them – from Vanity Fair)
Jack Tilton 
Art News obit _ Relentlessly Venturesome art dealer died
Jack Tilton, an art dealer whose gallery was instrumental in discovering or giving crucial early exposure to Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, David Hammons and other artists who later became prominent, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 66.
The cause was complications of cancer, his wife, Connie Rogers Tilton, said.
Mr. Tilton, who began his career as an assistant to Betty Parsons at her renowned 57th Street gallery, had an eye for the new and a thirst for discovery. He was particularly keen on finding young artists just coming into their own and giving them the needed push.
Several artists who are now well established, including Francis Alys, Glenn Ligon, and Fred Holland, who died last year, benefited from his backing. He was also a prescient, intrepid explorer of Chinese art, using his gallery to showcase work by artists like Huang Yong Ping and Zhang Peili.
Jack Tilton gallery introduced me to Blinky Parlermo’a art