Midwest Landscape #15

Photography and Media

1961

Art Sinsabaugh
American, 1924–1983

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Art Sinsabaugh
Title: Midwest Landscape #15
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1961
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, below image, in graphite: "#15, No. 60, Artist Proof #1"; signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Art Sinsabaugh '61"; blind stamped recto, on mount, lower right: "[circular design] Strathmore / Use Either Side"; inscribed verso, on mount, center, in blue and black ink: "#4 [crossed out] / 60 15[15 is encircled] 15"; verso, on mount, lower right, in blue ink: "ART SINSABAUGH / "ILLINOIS LANEDSCAPE" / PHOTOGRAPH / (19 3/4 x 4 1/2) / Value 75.00 [crossed out]"; verso, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "CEO 97 / 145"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.3 × 48.9 cm (4 1/2 × 19 5/16 in.); Mount: 38.2 × 56 cm (15 1/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block
Reference Number: 1983.62

Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel. 2002. “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971,” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. pp. 150–51, cat. 167, pl. 148.
Davis, Keith F. 2005. “American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh.” Exh. cat. the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington and Hudson Hills Press. frontispiece.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971,” March 2–May 12, 2002; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 20–October 20, 2002; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 7, 2002–March 2, 2003. (David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel)
Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Art Museum, “American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh,” October 2-December 23, 2005; precedingly traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2, 2004-Janary 5, 2005; Columbus Museum of Art, February 11-April 17, 2005; Krannert Art Museum, June 3-August 7, 2005. (Keith F. Davis)

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