Name: HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)
Brand: Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
Price: 2000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

HARRY CALLAHAN (1912–1999)
Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
gelatin silver print, printed 1980
signed in pencil (recto); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 9³⁄₄ x 9¹⁄₈ in. (24.8 x 23.2 cm.)
sheet: 11⁷⁄₈ x 11 in. (29.8 x 27.9 cm.)

Light Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Sherman Paul, Harry Callahan, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967, p. 18.
John Szarkowski, Callahan, Aperture, New York, 1976, p. 59.
Harry Callahan, Eleanor, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, 1984, p. 64.
Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan, Bulfinch Press, New York, 1996, p. 85.
Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, 2006, pl. 110.
Julian Cox, Harry Callahan: Eleanor, Steidl, Göttingen, 2007, pl. 23, p. 65.
Keith Davis et al., At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer, Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2009, pl. 15.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 126.
Dirk Luckow and Sabine Schnakenberg (eds.), Harry Callahan, Kehrer, Germany, 2013, p. 85.

Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
Portland, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, The Unseen Eye, September 6–30, 2012.

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'Harry Callahan’s Eleanor, Chicago is the Mona Lisa of post-World War II photography and an archetypal collaboration between artist and muse, his wife. The detail is exquisite, the tendril-like hair drifting in the water, the elusive nipple under water, the absolutely serene expression.' – W.M. Hunt