Eleanor, Aix-en-Provence

Harry Callahan

1958

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Elizabeth Tingle's House, near Akron, Alabama, 1964, William Christenberry, chromogenic print
A Windy Ride, Helen Hyde, color woodcut
The Capture of Major André, From a painting by Asher Brown Durand, Figures engraved by Alfred Jones, Landscape engraved by James Smillie, and Robert Hinshelwood, Published by American Art-Union, hand-colored engraving
Three-quarter-length portrait of an elderly woman seated in a painted chair (the chair's ear is visible at far left) before a wall with a red curtain drawn to reveal a window, at right, through which can be seen a sunset painted in peach pink hues. The woman—who gazes directly at the viewer—wears a black dress with white trimmed sleeves, full-length black gloves, and a diaphanous white linen cap and kerchief. Her right arm rests on a large family Bible. She hold holds a pair of spectacles in her right hand, suggesting that she has just been reading the Scripture.