Lake Michigan

Artist Harry Callahan (American, 1912 - 1999)

Date1953; printed ca. 1980

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (19.37 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.161

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in pencil: "Harry Callahan"

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "S-195"; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "8-161-80"

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DescriptionImage of woman standing in middle of lake with water up to her thighs; she's facing a small child whose hair is pulled up in a bun. A cloud filled sky hovers over a flat horizon. A man stands near the far left edge of the frame.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.

Harry Callahan: Photographs. Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, January 17 - March 1, 1981, no cat.

Harry Callahan: Photographs. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, August28 - October 16, 1983, no cat.

Harry Callahan. Drew University, Madison, NJ, October 7 - October 28, 1987, no cat.

The Art of Photography, 1939-1989. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 11 - April 30, 1989, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, June 17 - August 27, 1989, Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 23 - December 23, 1989, no. 348.

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

Photography of Harry Callahan. Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH, June 1993, no cat.

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

Harry Callahan. Fundación “la Caixa,” Madrid, June-July 2000, Instituto de América, Centro Damiàn Bayón, Granada, September-October 2000, San Esteban, Murcia, Spain, November-December 2000, Fundación “la Caixa” en las Islas Baleares, Palma, Spain, February-April 2001, unnumbered, as Lago Michigan.

Harry Callahan. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 - October 21, 2007, no cat.

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