Couple Walking Down Street, Venice

1957

Harry Callahan

Associated Names
Harry Callahan

Artist, American, 1912 - 1999

This is a photograph of an urban street scene. In the photograph, there is a street with a dark, textured wall on the right and a shuttered storefront to the left. Light from the left casts shadows across the street, creating contrasts and highlighting details. The shuttered entrance has an indistinct sign above it, partially visible with letters spelled out. The limited light contrasts with the deep shadows, adding an atmospheric sense to the urban landscape.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed, lower right in graphite under image; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: #18

Wikidata ID

Q64154893

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