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.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at [email protected]
Condition Report
Provenance
Collection of Morgan Garwood (1956-2010)
Bequest from the above to the present owner
Literature
Harry Callahan: Photographs (Santa Barbara, 1964), p. 23
Harry Callahan (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), cover, p. 15
Nicholas Callaway and Anne Kennedy, eds., Eleanor (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 5
Britt Salvesen, Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work (Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 2006), p. 152
Julien Cox, Harry Callahan: Eleanor (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2007), p. 53
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)