Eleanor, Chicago, Harry Callahan

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Harry Callahan, Eleanor, Chicago
Harry Callahan, Eleanor, Chicago
Harry Callahan
Eleanor, Chicago
1949
Harry Callahan
1912–1999
Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19.7 x 24.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 3/4 x 9 5/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1981.0116
Not on display
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Archive Label: Callahan has photographed his wife, Eleanor, disrobed in the Callahans’ large living room. She is posed between two line drawings made directly on the wall by Hugo Weber, a Swiss artist who taught with Callahan at the Institute of Design in Chicago. The apartment’s spare decor, Weber’s drawings, and Callahan’s photograph show the stripped-down, European modernist style of the Bauhaus.