John Szarkowski
Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue

Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue
Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue
Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue
ArtistAmerican, 1925–2007
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Chicago Auditorium and Michigan Avenue
Date1954
Place depictedChicago, Illinois, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 13/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.4 × 32.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 12 13/16 in. (27.5 × 32.5 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 14 1/4 in. (34.4 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2433
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAlthough John Szarkowski is best known as curator and director (1962–1991) of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he helped to elevate the status of the medium, he was also an accomplished photographer. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships for photography, and his book The Idea of Louis Sullivan is considered one of the key publications on the architect. Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan’s protégé, called Szarkowski’s photographs the best taken of Sullivan’s work.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, recto, below image: "7 3/4"
Right side, reading vertically: "6 1/2 inches"
Pencilled arrows at 3 corners
In pencil, verso of mount, upper left corner: "John Szarkowski"

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