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==Early life and education== Penn was born to a [[Russian Jewish]] family<ref>[http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/bonnie_and_clyde_director_arthur_penn_dies_at_88_20100929/ Jewish Journal: "‘Bonnie and Clyde’ director Arthur Penn dies at 88" by Danielle Berrin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117122244/http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/bonnie_and_clyde_director_arthur_penn_dies_at_88_20100929 |date=2017-01-17 }} September 29, 2010 (Age 0)</ref> on June 16, 1917, in [[Plainfield, New Jersey]], to Harry Penn and Sonia Greenberg. Penn's younger brother, [[Arthur Penn]], was born in 1922 and would go on to become a film director and producer.<ref>{{cite news | author=Dave Kehr | title=Arthur Penn, Director of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' Dies | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/movies/30penn.html | work=The New York Times | date=September 29, 2010 | access-date=}}</ref> Penn attended [[Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn)|Abraham Lincoln High School]] where he studied graphic design with [[Leon Friend]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://designobserver.com/feature/leon-friend-one-teacher-many-apostles/5717|title=Leon Friend: One Teacher, Many Apostles|website=Design Observer|date=21 July 2007 |language=en|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz-dDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA336|title=Irving Penn: Centennial|last1=Hambourg|first1=Maria Morris|last2=Rosenheim|first2=Jeff L.|last3=Dennett|first3=Alexandra|last4=Garner|first4=Philippe|last5=Kirsch|first5=Adam|last6=Prins|first6=Harald E. L.|last7=Zatse|first7=Vasilios|date=2017-04-21|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=9781588396181|language=en}}</ref> Penn attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|University of the Arts]]) from 1934 to 1938, where he studied drawing, painting, graphics, and industrial arts under [[Alexey Brodovitch]]. While still a student, Penn worked under Brodovitch at ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' which published several of Penn's drawings.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}
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