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Photo Credit: copy photo: J. Giammatteo
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Grasses, Wisconsin
195820th century
134 x 201 mm (5.3 x 7.9 in.)
Harry Callahan, American, (1912–1999)
- abstraction - Use for the general concept and approach. For the 20th-century movement and its products, use "Abstract." [April 1993 related term added.]
- grass (plant material)
- line - Mathematically, the trace of a moving point; more generally a narrow elongated mark drawn or projected. W [January 1993 scope note changed; descriptor moved.]
- 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.
- Nature - Use for the concept of the physical world, including the forces at work in it and the nonhuman life inhabiting it, perceived by human beings as separate and independent from themselves, their activities, and civilization. For aggregates of physical things, conditions, and influences surrounding and affecting given organisms or communities of organisms at any time, use "environments (object groupings)." For the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their habitat, use "ecology." [April 1990 descriptor added.]
- plants
- Wisconsin - TGN 7007922
- image Dimensions: 134 x 201 mm (5.3 x 7.9 in.)
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Harry Callahan, American, (1912–1999) . Grasses, Wisconsin, 1958. Gelatin silver print. image : 134 x 201 mm (5.3 x 7.9 in.). Sheet : 176 x 212 mm (6.9 x 8.3 in.). DAC accession number 2008.20.3. Gift of the Callahan Family, including Allison Hollinger (BA Wesleyan 2008), and Susan and Peter MacGill, in loving memory of Harry Callahan, 2008. (copy photo: J. Giammatteo) .