A black and white photograph of six vertical shapes against a dark background.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows six vertical shapes against a background of dark gray squares outlined in black. The vertical shapes start at the left side, the shapes rise up wider at the bottom before tapering in and flaring out and up, there is a hole in the center of the section. At the widest point the shapes angle in to form a small ledge before rising up and flaring out again. The tops have a short flat edge on the left which rises to a peak before angling down to a short flat edge on the right. The third shape from the left is missing the right edge.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1978.68
People
Aaron Siskind, American (New York, N.Y., USA 1903 - 1991 Providence, R.I., USA)
Title
Chicago 11
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1953
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Illinois, Chicago
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284190

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23 x 33.1 cm (9 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 x 35.2 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, above center, in graphite: Aaron Siskind
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Chicago 11
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: Aaron Siskind
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: 53? [circled]
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in artist's hand: -4 Ch 11

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
P1978.68
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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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

Verification Level

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