P1999.117: Chicago
PhotographsThe black and white photograph shows a portion of a brick building with windows having a slightly arched top. There are five rows of windows. In the center are narrow windows that are smaller than the rest. To the left are four windows, to the right are three windows. A decorative element of small recessed rectangles appears between the windows above the bottom three rows of windows.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1999.117
- People
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Harry Callahan, American (Detroit, Michigan 1912 - 1999)
- Title
- Chicago
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- c. 1949
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/186676
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 19.5 x 24.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: recto, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Harry Callahan
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Eugene P. and Barbara J. Polk, Prescott, Arizona, gift to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999. Through Pace Wildenstein Macgill Gallery.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eugene P. and Barbara J. Polk
- Copyright
- © Estate of Harry Callahan, Courtesy of Pace Gallery
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- P1999.117
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #2: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/09/2009 - 01/10/2010
- HAA178m Cold War Photography (S427) Spring 2012, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 05/12/2012
- 32Q: 1110 , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2019 - 10/07/2019
Subjects and Contexts
- The Bauhaus
Verification Level
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