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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Harry Callahan

Eleanor

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October 21, 06:26 PM GMT

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6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Harry Callahan 

1912 - 1999


Eleanor

signed in pencil (on the mount)

gelatin silver print, mounted

5¾ by 7¾ in. 

14.6 by 19.7 cm.

Executed in 1948, probably printed in the 1950s

Collection of Grace M. Mayer, New York

Bequest of the above in 1997 to the present owner

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, From the Grace M. Mayer Collection, April - July 1997

“What Is It?”, LIFE, 10 January 1949, p. 104, illustrated

Photographs: Harry Callahan, Santa Barbara, 1964, pl. 23, illustrated

Harry Callahan, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967, p. 15, illustrated

Anne Kennedy and Nicholas Callaway, eds., Eleanor, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984, p. 5, illustrated

Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 2006, no. 100 and fig. 31, pp. 152 and 186, illustrated

Julian Cox, Harry Callahan: Eleanor, Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2007, no. 11, p. 53, illustrated