Eleanor, Chicago

Artist Harry Callahan (American, 1912 - 1999)

Dateca. 1947

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 4 3/8 × 3 7/16 inches (11.11 × 8.73 cm)
Sheet: 5 × 4 inches (12.7 × 10.16 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.164

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

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: [up arrow]; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "8-282-88"

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DescriptionCropped image of a nude woman on her side; a black satin cloth covers the area below her belly button.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

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

Harry Callahan. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. , March 3 - May 22, 1996, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 14 - November 24, 1996, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, February 11 - April 6, 1997, Detroit Institute of Arts, April 26 - July 6, 1997, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2 August-28 September 1997.

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.

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

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