Harry Callahan
Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago

© Estate of Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago
Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago
ArtistAmerican, 1912–1999
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago
Date1953
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (19.4 × 18.9 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 15/16 in. (25.1 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Morgan Garwood
Object number2014.109
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAlthough self-taught, Harry Callahan was among the most influential post-war American teachers of photography, first at the Institute of Design in Chicago from 1946 to 1961, and then at the Rhode Island School of Design where he established the photography program. Whether photographing landscapes, city scenes and pedestrians, or studies of his wife Eleanor and daughter Barbara, Callahan maintained a simplicity of line. He worked in both black-and-white and color, exploring different techniques like multiple and extended exposures, collage, and extreme contrast printing that exemplify the experimental philosophy and formal abstraction of modernist photography.
ProvenanceMorgan Garwood, New York; bequeathed to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History“A Critical Eye: Mid-Century American Photographs from the Morgan Garwood Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23–November 2, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil "EM 26"
bottom right below image and verso top right in pencil "Harry Callahan"

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