Harry Callahan (1912-1999)
Providence (Lingerie Mannequin), c. 1962
Dye-transfer print, printed 1980 under the supervision of the artist and funded by Tennyson Schad
Signed in pencil in the margin; various gallery inventory numbers in pencil in unidentified hand on verso; Bruce Silverstein Gallery label on the reverse of the mat
Image size: 8¾ by 13½ inches; paper size: 11 x 14 inches; mat size: 16 x 20 inches
Provenance: Private Collection; Bruce Silverstein Gallery, NYC; Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC; Fern & Tennyson Schad of Light Gallery, NYC
Condition: Excellent
Retail: $8500
A print of this image is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
PROVENANCE: LIGHT Gallery/Tennyson & Fern Schad:
Light Gallery, New York opened in 1971 by Tennyson & Fern Schad and was the most influential gallery for photography until its official closing in 1987.
“It was the first commercially viable gallery in New York City to exclusively exhibit the comteporary work of living photographers. LIGHT Gallery was the brainchild of Tennyson Schad, a consultnat attorny whose wife, Fern Schad, was a former picture editor at Life magazine . . . In the formative years of 1971 to 1976, LIGHT Gallery occupied the third floor of 1018 Madison Avenue in New York City . . . At its opening, LIGHT’s stable of artists included . . . Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan . . . Emmet Gowin . . . Aaron Siskind . . . Frederick Sommer (and more) . . . In 1976, as the market for phtoography gained considerable momentum, LIGHT relocated to 724 Fifth Avenue . . From this point forward, it continued to represent contemporary work while expanding its scope to include established masters such as Ansel Adams. “ – Joan Marter, The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1, pg. 161
Pricing Comparables (Dye Transfers):
Christie’s, Sale 2586, Photographs, 4-5 October 2012, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 138, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Providence, 1963
dye-transfer print, printed later
signed in pencil (in the margin)
image: 7
1/8 x 10½in. (18.5 x 27.1cm.)
sheet: 11 x 14in. (28.5 x 35.9cm.)
Christie’s, Sale 2586, Photographs, 4-5 October 2012, New York,
Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 139, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Untitled, c. 1980
dye-transfer print
signed in pencil (in the margin)
image: 9 5/8 x 14½in.
(24.9 x 37.3cm.)
sheet: 16¾ x 21 3/8in. (43 x 54.7cm.)
Christie’s, Sale 2586, Photographs, 4-5 October 2012, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 361, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
New York, c. 1975
dye-transfer print
signed in pencil (in the margin)
image: 9 5/8 x 14½in.
(24.8 x 37.2cm.)
sheet: 16¾ x 21½in. (43 x 54.9cm.)
Christie’s, Sale 2586, Photographs, 4-5 October 2012, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 359, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Untitled, 1970s
dye-transfer print
signed in pencil (in the margin)
image: 9 5/8 x 14½in.
(24.8 x 37.2cm.)
sheet: 16¾ x 21½in. (43 x 54.9cm.)
Christie’s, Sale 2229, Photographs, 7 December 2009, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 90, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Eleanor and
Barbara, 1953
dye-transfer print, printed later
signed in pencil (in the
margin)
8½ x 13 1/8in. (21.6 x 33.3cm.)
Christie’s, Sale 2206, Photographs, 8 October 2009, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 737, HARRY CALLAHAN (1912-1999)
Selected color
studies, 1946-1977
10 dye-transfer prints, 6 printed later
each signed in
pencil (in the margin); each with title and date in an unknown hand in pencil
(on the verso)
varying sizes from 8¾ x 13¾in. (22.2 x 33.7cm.) to 4 3/8 x 4
3/8in. (11.5 x 11.5cm.) (10)
Christie’s, Sale 2205, The American Landscape: Color
Photoraphs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman, 7 October 2009, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 51
Christie’s, Sale 2205, The American Landscape: Color Photoraphs
from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman, 7 October 2009, New York,
Rockefeller Plaza, Lot 52
SHORT BIO:
Harry Callahan (1912-1999) is widely recognized as one of
the more influential photographers and teachers of the last half of the 20th
Century. He was born and raised in Detroit and began teaching himself the
medium in the late 1930s. In 1941, he was greatly inspired hearing Ansel Adams
speak at the Detroit Photo League.
In 1944, he began working at the General Motors Photographic
Laboratory and within two years he started teaching at the Institute of Design,
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He was there until 1961 when he went
to the Rhode Island School of Design to start the photography department. He
retired in 1977.
Over the years, he concentrated on a wide range of subject
matter, including his wife, landscapes, seascapes and street scenes. He has
been widely published and exhibited, including a one person show at the Museum
of Modern Art in 1976.
In the late 1970s, he began focusing on color. He had made
color photographs for decades, but they only existed as Kodachrome transparencies.
He began to produce dye transfer prints and held his first color show in 1978
at the Light Gallery in New York. The prints we are exhibiting are from that
time period.—Afterimage Gallery
Select Exhibitions:
2010 Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, MA (solo); Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York, NY; Cincinnati Art
Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Sala Municipal de San Benito, Valladolid; Spainbr Städtische
Galerie Iserlohn, Iserlohn, Germany; IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,
Ireland; Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belguim
2009 Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Rick
Wester Fine Art, New York, NY; Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; The Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco – de Young, San Francisco, CA; Flo Peters Gallery,
Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, Berlin, Germany; International Center
of Photography, New York, NY; Hasted Hunt, New York, NY; Deborah Bell
Photographs, New York, NY; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France; Fundacion
Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
2008 Deborah Bell
Photographs, NY
2007 High Museum of
Art, Atlanta, GA (solo); Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (solo); Jackson
Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (solo); Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (solo); Center
for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; Michael
Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York, NY; The
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Williams College Museum of
Art, Williamstown, MA
2006 The Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo); CCP Center for Creative Photography,
Tucson, AZ (solo); Danziger Projects, New York, NY (solo); Zabriskie Gallery,
New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Daiter
Contemporary, Chicago, IL; Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie f
5,6, Munchen, Germany
2005 Instituto
Cervantes, Berlin, Germany; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Alan Klotz Gallery, New
York, NY; Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France; Laurence Miller Gallery,
New York, NY; Gendell Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Pace / MacGill Gallery, New
York, NY
Select Public Collections:
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco,
CA
Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris,
France
MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan