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Description: mounted to Brudno board, signed by the photographer in pencil on the mount, matted, framed, a Jan Kesner Gallery label on the reverse, 1953

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Dimensions: 7 5/8 by 9 5/8 in. (19.5 by 24.5 cm.)

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Provenance: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT RICHARDSON

Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990

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Published: Other prints of this image:

Photographs: Harry Callahan (Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964), plate 5

Harry Callahan (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1967), p. 27

Eleanor (Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1984), p. 49

Harry Callahan, Aperture Masters of Photography (1999), p. 2

Robert A. Sobieszek, Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections (New York, 1985), p. 337

Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman, American Photography: A Century of Images (San Francisco, 1999), p. 106

Daniel Wolf, The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (Yale University Press, 1989), pl. 350

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Notes: This photograph comes from the collection of cinematographer Robert Richardson, whose lengthy credits include work for directors such as Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Quentin Tarantino, Errol Morris, and John Sayles. Richardson began collecting photographs in the late 1980s, searching out photography dealers and galleries while on location in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. As he built his collection, he constantly refined his vision and explored the relationship between the still images that he purchased and his own work in film. One of the photographers represented in depth in Richardson's collection was Harry Callahan. Sotheby's offered a large selection of photographs from Richardson's collection in these rooms on 28 April 2004 (Sale 7987, Lots 132-168).