Object number1973.22.30

Telephone Wires

Datec. 1945

Artist Harry Callahan (American, 1912-1999)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 x 7 in. (19.05 x 17.78 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, The Charles E. Merrill Trust Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by artist, upper center edge in pencil: #237 P

BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 16

Vassar Exhibitions

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print

Exhibition HistoryCallahan in New England, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI, August 27 - October 9, 1994;

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022
DescriptionBlack vertical, horizontal, and diagonal telephone wires crossing against a white sky.

Terms

Late Modernism

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