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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.1633
People
Harry Callahan, American (Detroit, Michigan 1912 - 1999)
Title
Eleanor
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1951
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/165414

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 9.5 x 12 cm (3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
sheet: 12.5 x 17.5 cm (4 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
mount: 23 x 23 cm (9 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): recto of mount, lower edge, graphite: Purchase from photographer, 1966
    P1971.8 Eleanor 1951
  • (not assigned): verso of mount, graphite: [typed CCVA label]
    remat 16x14 OD wh.
    F [encircled]
  • (not assigned): verso of mount, b.r. corner, in blue ink: 42.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of the Photographer
Copyright
© Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy of Pace Gallery
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.1633
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Fifty Photographs, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 07/06/2016 - 09/24/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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