A black and white photograph of a brick wall and a white area with black lines.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a part of a brick wall on the left side with the letter R written in white. On the right an area of white with light gray veining and a black edge on the left covers three-quarters of the picture plane. There is a small black disc in the center of the white area. Five black lines radiate up, out and down from the black disc and a white line then angles out and down from it.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1978.59
People
Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)
Title
Chicago 30
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1953
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/174518

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26 x 33.8 cm (10 1/4 x 13 5/16 in.)
sheet: 27.9 x 33.8 cm (11 x 13 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, top center, in graphite: Aaron Siskind
  • inscription: verso, top center, graphite, signed, in artist's hand: Chicago 1953
    signature
  • inscription: verso, right side, graphite: Ch 30
    4/53
    M4
  • stamp: verso, top center, ink: Photograph by
    AARON SISKIND

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard L. Menschel
Copyright
© Estate of Aaron Siskind
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
P1978.59
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Travis, ed., Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937-1971, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2002), plate 113/cat. no. 175

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1110 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/23/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

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