Detroit

Photography and Media

1943

Harry Callahan
American, 1912–1999

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Harry Callahan
Title: Detroit
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1943
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 24.9 × 33.9 cm (9 13/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Mount: 45.9 × 55.8 cm (18 1/8 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1959.876

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 386, cat. 305.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
Berlin, Germany, Berlinishe Galerie, “Sprung in die Zeit,” November 20, 1992–January 17, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern Series: Go,” February 23, 2017-June 4, 2017. (Galleries 182-184)

7 Harry Callahan, Detroit, 1943

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