Harry Callahan Eleanor

Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Harry Callahan
1912 - 1999
Eleanor

gelatin silver print, signed in pencil in the margin and signed, titled, dated and annotated 'EM 23' in pencil on the reverse
image: 7 by 9¼ in. (17.8 by 23.5 cm.)
Executed 1948, printed later.

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Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

This print, on Agfa paper, is in generally excellent condition. There are graphic guidelines in the margins.

On the reverse, 'TR: 9-82.8' is written in pencil in an unidentified hand.

Catalogue Note:
"The photographic portraits Harry Callahan made of his wife, Eleanor, inspire and open us to what is both visible and invisible. . .Of course there is a watchfulness, almost or nearly a worshipful awe of her as a woman, as the center of the mystery of life; there is also a constancy of real and enduring beauty." (Harry Callahan: Eleanor, p. 12)

Provenance:
Collection of Morgan Garwood (1956-2010)

Bequest from the above to the present owner