Chicago

Artist Harry Callahan (American, 1912 - 1999)

Date1960

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 15 9/16 inches (26.67 × 39.53 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 9/16 inches (26.67 × 39.53 cm)
Mount: 10 5/8 × 15 11/16 inches (26.99 × 39.85 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.824

SignedSigned on mount verso, top center, in pencil: "Harry Callahan"

InscribedOn mount verso, top center, in pencil: "#8 in show / Chicago 1960"

MarkingsOn mount verso, top right corner, in pencil: "Acc:8-8-64"; On mount verso, lower right corner, circled, in pencil: "10"; On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "P5.008.008.64"

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Photography

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DescriptionImage of man wearing glasses and a young girl - both in profile walking in opposite directions.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Harry Callahan: New Color. Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 5, 1992 - January 12, 1993, no cat.

Harry Callahan. Les Rencontres d'Arles, July 6 - August 15, 1993, no cat.

Essential Elements: The Photography of Harry Callahan. Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, November 2, 1994- January 8, 1995, no cat.

At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskin, Sommer. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, January 31 - August 9, 2009, no. 38.

Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

In many of his street photographs, Harry Callahan explored a particular condition of big-city life: pedestrians lost in thought, alone in a mental realm completely their own. One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Callahan took up the camera as an amateur in the late 1930s. In 1946, he was hired to teach at the now legendary Institute of Design in Chicago. His students there included Marvin Newman and Ray Metzker, and his photographs inspired many others of the period, including Dave Heath.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1964;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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