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Harry Callahan
Detroit1941

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Horizontal abstract painting with six tall cyan vertical forms tapering to points against a black ground, their tips dissolving into horizontal streaks of red at the top

Harry Callahan, Detroit, 1941, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Anonymous gift, Los Angeles, in honor of Robert Sobieszek, digital © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Harry Callahan
Title
Detroit
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1941
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Dimensions
Image (Image): 7 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (17.94 × 25.08 cm) Primary support: 11 1/16 × 14 1/16 in. (28.1 × 35.72 cm) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift, Los Angeles, in honor of Robert Sobieszek
Accession Number
M.2005.150.14
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2018.
Copyright
© The Estate of Harry Callahan, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

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