Object number2017.35.4
Wabash Avenue, Chicago
Date1958
Artist
Harry Callahan
(American, 1912-1999)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed no later than 1987
DimensionsSheet: 8 1/2 × 14 in. (21.6 × 35.6 cm)
Image: 7 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (19.4 × 29.8 cm)
Image: 7 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (19.4 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Richard and Ronay Menschel
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right margin in pencil: Harry Callahan
InscribedOn verso, possibly by artist, upper center edge in pencil: EM / 45; by unidentified hand, lower left edge: FLLAC 2017.35.4
BibliographySalvesen, Britt, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 124, repr.; Greenough, Sarah, and Harry M. Callahan. Harry Callahan. 1st ed. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 1996, p. 120; Szarkowski, John. Callahan. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976, p. 129 ProvenanceGift of Richard and Ronay MenschelDescriptionImage of a dark street with strong light in the center where people walk in front of a parking garage and there are signs out front and a lamppost in the middle
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