Human Form, from the series "Human Form"

Photography and Media

1965-66

Barbara Crane
American, 1928-2019

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Barbara Crane
Title: Human Form, from the series "Human Form"
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 1965–1966
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: Top [upward pointing arrow] ; verso, center, in graphite: Barbara Crane / "Human Form" / 1965-66 / X
Dimensions: Image: 20.3 × 24.1 cm (8 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Barbara and Lawrence Spitz Fund
Reference Number: 2001.202

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. 173, cat. 43, pl. 156.
Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., “The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media,” eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 338, p. 346 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).

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, “Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart,” October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007. (David Travis)

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