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A black and white photograph of a brick building with multiple windows.

The 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
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
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
  • inscription: recto, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: Harry Callahan

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
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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 Mid-Century Abstraction II (Post-Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/12/2019 - 10/07/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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