Photographer Irving Penn arrived in Lima, Peru, in December 1948 for a Vogue fashion assignment, then traveled to the city of Cuzco, rented a portrait studio for three days, and, using a Rolleiflex camera, produced more than 2,000 portraits and street scenes. Now the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a major group of his Cuzco images via a donation from The Irving Penn Foundation. "This acquisition transforms the Getty Museum into one of the most comprehensive repositories of photographs by Irving Penn," said Getty Museum director Timothy Potts.

  With the buzz already audible regarding the October opening of Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at The Met, a major exhibition on two mid-century titans that also promises to bring new perspective on the ways in which outstanding woman artists have been disappeared by the art world at large, this is a good time to focus on a painter who will likely become better known following her untimely death than she was in life. Above: The artist in 2019 in he...