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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo

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Chicago

1948
20th century
229 x 194 mm (9 x 7.6 in.)

Harry Callahan, American, (1912–1999)

Alternative title: Apartment House Windows, Chicago

Object Type: photograph

Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print

Edition: Printed 1977 by the artist for Russell G. D’Oench

Marks: Signed in stylus on print, lower right: “Harry Callahan”

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Purchased by the donor from Light Gallery, New York, 1977

Bibliography: Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), cat. no. 64; Sarah Greenough, Harry Callahan (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1996), p. 59.

Credit Line: Gift of Russell G. D’Oench, Jr., 1991

Accession Number: 1991.30.9

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This object has the following keywords:

abstraction*, architecture*, Chicago*, Illinois*, Midwest*

abstraction - Use for the general concept and approach. For the 20th-century movement and its products, use "Abstract." [April 1993 related term added.]
architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
Chicago - TGN 7013596
Illinois - TGN 7007251
Midwest - TGN 4007191 (general region): Refers to north-central USA, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, & usually Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, and the Dakotas. Although the area falls primarily in the middle and eastern third of the United States, it was called the "midwest" because it was west of the original English colonies. Europeans settled here mainly after American Revolution, although some lived in Kentucky and Tennessee earlier.

Location Latitude: American, Longitude: D'Oench

Dimensions

image Dimensions: 229 x 194 mm (9 x 7.6 in.)

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Credit Caption

Harry Callahan, American, (1912–1999) . Chicago, 1948. Gelatin silver print. image : 229 x 194 mm (9 x 7.6 in.). DAC accession number 1991.30.9. Gift of Russell G. D’Oench, Jr., 1991. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .

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