Callahan, Harry
American (1912-1999)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Grasses in snow, Detroit
ca. 1942
gelatin silver print
23.1 x 31.8 cm.
Museum purchase
81:1131:0023
OLD GEH NUMBER: 8208-23
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Callahan, Harry. --Photographs.-- Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. pl. 93.//
Callahan, Harry. --Harry Callahan: Photographs.-- Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1981. p. 28.//
Szarkowski, John. --Callahan.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1976. p. 34.//
EXHIBITION HISTORY: ""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
INSCRIPTION: verso-(handwritten in pencil) "Callahan-Grasses in snow, Detroit, about 1942"
copyright, Harry Callahan
NOTES: Title listed as "Weeds in snow, Detroit, 1943" in --Callahan--, and --Photographs--. Cataloged 10/85, DZ.
SUBJECT: study, abstract
Nice pic. Makes me think of David Smith sculptures...
"Greenough's chronological structure accomplishes two things. First, she is able to construct a stylistic progression for the work. What she finds is that Callahan moved from experimentation, in work he did in Detroit between 1941 and 1946, to what he called "seeing photographically," in photographs he made from 1946 to 1961, years he taught at the Institute of Design, in Chicago (p. 44). The alternation of order and chaos in this work, Greenough says, then gave way to a "distinct edginess" that began when he returned to Chicago from a sabbatical in France in 1957-58 (p. 51). That edginess became even more marked when he moved to Providence in 1961 to teach at the Rhode Island School of Design. Since 1977, when Callahan retired from academic life, his work, much of it in color, has become simpler. In a wall label in the final room of the exhibition, Greenough claims that these late works are "less about their nominal subjects . . . and more about the act of seeing itself - about observation and contemplation."
Jill Moser
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- bill 9-25-2004 11:20 pm
Callahan, Harry
American (1912-1999)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Grasses in snow, Detroit
ca. 1942
gelatin silver print
23.1 x 31.8 cm.
Museum purchase
81:1131:0023
OLD GEH NUMBER: 8208-23
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Callahan, Harry. --Photographs.-- Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. pl. 93.//
Callahan, Harry. --Harry Callahan: Photographs.-- Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1981. p. 28.//
Szarkowski, John. --Callahan.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1976. p. 34.//
EXHIBITION HISTORY: ""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
INSCRIPTION: verso-(handwritten in pencil) "Callahan-Grasses in snow, Detroit, about 1942"
copyright, Harry Callahan
NOTES: Title listed as "Weeds in snow, Detroit, 1943" in --Callahan--, and --Photographs--. Cataloged 10/85, DZ.
SUBJECT: study, abstract
- bill 9-25-2004 11:25 pm [add a comment]
Nice pic. Makes me think of David Smith sculptures...
- tom moody 9-25-2004 11:37 pm [add a comment]
I was thinking richard tuttle
Wire Piece, 1972 wire
- bill 9-26-2004 3:48 am [add a comment]
"Greenough's chronological structure accomplishes two things. First, she is able to construct a stylistic progression for the work. What she finds is that Callahan moved from experimentation, in work he did in Detroit between 1941 and 1946, to what he called "seeing photographically," in photographs he made from 1946 to 1961, years he taught at the Institute of Design, in Chicago (p. 44). The alternation of order and chaos in this work, Greenough says, then gave way to a "distinct edginess" that began when he returned to Chicago from a sabbatical in France in 1957-58 (p. 51). That edginess became even more marked when he moved to Providence in 1961 to teach at the Rhode Island School of Design. Since 1977, when Callahan retired from academic life, his work, much of it in color, has become simpler. In a wall label in the final room of the exhibition, Greenough claims that these late works are "less about their nominal subjects . . . and more about the act of seeing itself - about observation and contemplation."
- bill 9-25-2004 11:41 pm [add a comment]
Jill Moser
- selma 10-01-2004 7:38 pm [add a comment]