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Identification and Creation

Object Number: P2000.153
People: Harry Callahan, American (Detroit, Michigan 1912 - 1999)
Title: Chicago
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 1949, printed later
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/165403

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.4 x 24.5 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: recto, lower right, graphite or black ink, in artist's hand: Harry Callahan
inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: MOMA I 33
inscription: verso, left center, oriented vertically, graphite: EM - 37

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Eugene P. and Barbara J. Polk, Prescott, Arizona, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eugene P. and Barbara J. Polk
Accession Year: 2000
Object Number: P2000.153
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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