Eleanor, Chicago

1949

Harry Callahan

Artist, American, 1912 - 1999

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Collectors Committee

  • Dimensions

    overall (sheet, trimmed to image): 17.7 x 17.5 cm (6 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
    mat: 45.72 x 35.56 cm (18 x 14 in.)
    mount: 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.83.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA; purchased with donated funds from the Collectors Committee by NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • Harry Callahan, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Philadelphia Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1996-1997.

2012

  • The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

Bibliography

1964

  • Photographs: Harry Callahan, Santa Barbara [California], 1964: pl. 2.

1967

  • Harry Callahan, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967: p. 18.

1970

  • Coleman, A.D. "Photography: Is His Genius Underrated?" The New York Times (27 September 1970): D34.

1976

  • Hughes, Robert. "Art: Exactly What Is a Photograph?" Time (20 December 1976): p. 70.

  • Callahan. New York, 1976: pl. 59.

1978

  • Harry Callahan. New York, 1978: pl. 4.

  • Elliot, David. "'Mies' with a camera." Chicago Sun-Times (15 October 1978): 6.

1980

  • Thornton, Gene. "Photography View: Harry Callahan's Discerning Use of Color." The New York Times (7 September 1980): D33.

1983

  • Harry Callahan. Exh. cat. Seibu Museum of Art. Seibu, Japan, 1983: pl. 1.

  • Master Photographers: The World's Great Photographers on their Art and Technique. New York, 1983: p. 61

1984

  • Callahan, Harry M. Eleanor. New York, 1984: pl. 64.

  • Chahroudi, Martha. "Eleanor, Chicago, 1949: Harry Callahan." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art 80 (Summer/Fall 1984): p. 33.

  • Scully, Julia. "Seeing Pictures: Sometimes a small, concentrated sampling of an artist's work sheds new light on the whole." Modern Photography 48 (August 1984): 18.

  • Strauss, David Levi. "The Lineaments of a Gratified Desire." Artweek 15 (2 June 1984): p. 11.

1988

  • "A Great Age." Life 11 (Fall 1988): p. 140.

1996

  • Greenough 1996, p. 85.

Inscriptions

on mount, lower right in graphite: Harry Callahan; center verso in graphite: 11 x 14; center verso in graphite: 14

Wikidata ID

Q64154728

You may be interested in

Loading Results