Irving Petlin
Irving Petlin was an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists and for his work in the "series form" in which he employed the raw materials of pastel, oil paint and unprimed linen, and found inspiration in the work of writers and poets including Primo Levi, Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, Michael Palmer and Edmond Jabès.
17 December 1934
Born on the same birth date (17 December 1934): Ray Wilson (English footballer)
Born on the same birth day (17 December): Armin Mueller-Stahl • Edward Meneeley • Eli Pariser • Emma Bell • Graham Rogers (actor) • Gregory Campbell (ice hockey) • Inna Lasovskaya • Josef Lada • Joshua Ingram • Jüri Talvet • Kenneth E. Iverson • Paul Butterfield • Thomas Tickell • Totka Petrova
Born in the same month (December 1934): Alan Ridout • Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan • Barry Briggs • Bill Collins (television presenter) • Boris Volynov • David Pearson (racing driver) • Hanif Mohammad • Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow • Maggie Smith • Marc Rich • Nick Bockwinkel • Pratibha Patil • Ray Wilson (English footballer) • Richard D. Zanuck • Russ Tamblyn • Stjepan Mesić