Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Photography and Media

1955

Harry Callahan
American, 1912–1999

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Harry Callahan
Title: Eleanor and Barbara, 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 1955
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Harry Callahan"; inscribed verso, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "MC / 34 / XIV"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 17.2 × 16.8 cm (6 13/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Mount: 38 × 32.2 cm (15 × 12 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Sandor Family Collection in honor of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Reference Number: 1994.849

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. 94, cat. 33, pl. 58.
Bussard, Katherine. 2006. “So the Story Goes.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 11, fig. 4.

San Diego, CA, The Museum of Photographic Arts, “The Model Wife,” fall 2000; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, February 10-May 10, 2001. (Arthur Ollman)
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)

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