Chicago

Harry Callahan

1950

  • Titles Chicago (Proper)
  • Artist Harry Callahan, American, 1912 - 1999
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions image: 9 1/4 × 13 5/8 in. (23.5 × 34.6 cm) sheet: 9 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (24.4 × 35.2 cm) mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.63.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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The Visit, Anne Ryan, screenprint
This black and white photograph represents a cropped view of a building, which fills the entire picture. Part of its first story is visible at the bottom of the photograph, the top half of the door surrounds for the building’s entrances. Some of the first floor windows and doors are covered with signs, including two reading “LOEW’S ORPHEUM” across the top. There are three additional stories, all with boarded up windows. At the top of the image is the building’s dentil cornice.
Gold-colored vase with flowers in red, pink, green and gold.
In this painting on paper, an abstract tree fills the sheet. It stretches between all four sides of the page, extending beyond the image. There is a tangle of branches in front of a background only alluded to by color. At the top of the sheet the artist suggests a sky of blue and pink tones, and at the bottom of the sheet a grassy ground is suggested through teal and green paint. The fields of color are defined by the tree branches. The painting is signed in the lower right, Sheeler - 1947."