Chicago, Fall 1958

Harry Callahan

1958; printed later

  • Titles Chicago, Fall 1958 (Proper)
  • Artist Harry Callahan, American, 1912 - 1999
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions image: 8 × 12 1/2 in. (20.3 × 31.8 cm) sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) mat: 17 1/2 × 23 in. (44.5 × 58.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.66.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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