Eleanor

Photography and Media

1948, printed 1970s

Harry Callahan
American, 1912–1999

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Harry Callahan
Title: Eleanor
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 1948
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: "Harry Callahan"; signed verso, upper center, in graphite: "Harry Callahan"
Dimensions: Image: 21.9 × 30 cm (8 5/8 × 11 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.6 cm (10 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Reva and David Logan Foundation Fund
Reference Number: 1978.225

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. 26, pl. 59.

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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