Charley's Eye: Focused View for Camera, Chicago

Photography and Media

1940

Nathan Lerner
American, 1913–1997

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Nathan Lerner
Title: Charley's Eye: Focused View for Camera, Chicago
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 1940
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: Image: 22.4 × 18.5 cm (8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 25.5 × 20.4 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Edward Byron Smith and John Bross Fund
Reference Number: 1992.101

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. p. 42, cat. 105, pl. 11.

Art Institute of Chicago, “American Photographers: Recent Acquisitions,” January 9–April 18, 1993.
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)
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Mind at Play,” June 14–September 7, 2008. (David Travis)

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