P1978.68: Chicago 11
PhotographsThe 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
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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
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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
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- 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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