About This Artwork

Harry Callahan
American, 1912–1999

Basket in Sand, c. 1948

Gelatin silver print
5.7 x 5.7 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Peabody Fund, 1952.450

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, "Textures and Fragments of the City: 20th Century Photographs from the AIC Collection," August 4-July 29, 1973. (David Travis)

AIC, "Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart," October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007 (David Travis)

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Harry Callahan," March 3-May 19, 1996, (Sarah Greenough); traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 14-November 24, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum, February 11-April 6, 1997, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 27-July 6, 1997, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, August 2-September 2, 1997