Harry Callahan

Dates

Born 1912, Detroit, Michigan

Died 1999, Atlanta, Georgia

Education

1932, Michigan State University, East Lansing

2018

Harry Callahan: Sticks and Stones, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, September 6–October 18, 2018.

2016

Harry Callahan: French Archives Aix-en-Provence, 1957–1958, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, November 9, 2016–January 29, 2017. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: The Street, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, June 11–September 5, 2016. (Catalogue)

2014

Harry Callahan: City, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, January 9–March 22, 2014.

2013

Harry Callahan, Tate Modern, London, December 9, 2013–May 31, 2014.

Harry Callahan: Retrospective, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, July 19–October 27, 2013. Traveled to: Munchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany, March 21–June 9, 2013. (Catalogue)

2011

Harry Callahan at 100, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 2, 2011–March 4, 2012. (Catalogue)

2010

Harry Callahan: Variations, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, September 7–December 19, 2010. (Catalogue)

2009

Harry Callahan: American Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 21, 2009–July 5, 2010.

2007

Harry Callahan: Eleanor, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, September 8–December 9, 2007. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 9–October 21, 2007.

Harry Callahan: Women Lost in Thought, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, January 12–March 3, 2007.

2006

Harry Callahan: Nature, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, November 30, 2006–January 5, 2007. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 24–September 24, 2006. Traveled to: Center for Creative Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, May 20–September 2, 2007. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, January 27–May 7, 2006. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, June 22–September 24, 2006. (Catalogue)

2005

Harry Callahan: Women Lost in Thought, Danziger Gallery, New York, December 1, 2005–January 21, 2006.

2003

Harry Callahan: Early Experiments, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, September 6–October 18, 2003.

2001

Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Callahan, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, September 6–October 18, 2001. (Catalogue)

2000

Harry Callahan, Fundación "la Caixa", Madrid, June–July 2000. Traveled to: Instituto de América Centro Damian Bayon, Granada, Spain, November–December 2000, and Fundación "la Caixa" en las Islas Baleares, Palma, Spain, February–April 2001.

1999

Harry Callahan: Photographs 1981-1996, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, August 14–November 6, 1999. (Catalogue)

1998

Harry Callahan: Themes Revisited, 1942–1996, PaceWildenstein and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, August–October 24, 1998.

1997

Harry Callahan: Experiments, Innovations, PaceWildenstein and Pace/MacGill Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997.

1996

Harry Callahan, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 3–May 19, 1996. Traveled to: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, September 14–November 24, 1996; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, February 11–April 6, 1997; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, August 2–28, 1997; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, September 1997. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: Theme and Variation, PaceWildenstein and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, February 29–April 6, 1996.

1994

Callahan in New England, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, August 27–October 9, 1994. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: A Retrospective, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, January 21–March 5, 1994.

1992

Harry Callahan, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, September 10–October 24, 1992.

1991

Harry Callahan, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, Fall 1991.

1990

Harry Callahan, Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 5–October 21, 1990.

1987

Harry Callahan, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, October 15–November 28, 1987.

1985

Harry Callahan: Retrospective 1941–1982, Fotogallery, Cardiff, Wales, 1985. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, May 2–June 15, 1985.

1984

Eleanor and Barbara: Photographs by Harry Callahan, The Art Institute of Chicago, January 18–March 4, 1984.

1983

The Photography of Harry Callahan: 1941–1982, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, May 28–June 21, 1983. (Catalogue)

1981

Harry Callahan: Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection, New York, 1981. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: Photographs in Color, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, October 4–November 8, 1981.

1979

Harry Callahan: Photographs in Color / The Years 1946-1978, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, October 14–November 8, 1979. (Catalogue)

1978

Harry Callahan, 38th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, United States Pavilion, Venice, July 2–October 15, 1978. (Catalogue)

Harry Callahan: Color Photographs, LIGHT Gallery, New York, January 3–28, 1978.

1976

Callahan, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 2, 1976–February 1977. (Catalogue)

1972

Harry Callahan: The City, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, September 25, 1971–January 4, 1972.

1969

Harry Callahan, Fine Arts Gallery, San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, California, October 5–26, 1969. (Catalogue)

1964

Photographs: Harry Callahan, Hallmark Gallery, New York, August–October 10, 1964.

1963

Fotografia Harry Callahan, Galeria Krzysztofory, Krakow, Poland, 1963.

1958

Harry Callahan Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, January 10–March 10, 1958.

1957

Harry Callahan, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1957.

1951

Photographs by Harry Callahan, The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 31, 1951. (Catalogue)

1947

Harry Callahan, 750 Studio Gallery, New York, 1947.

2022

Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 2022. (Catalogue)

2020

Online: Alexander Calder & Harry Callahan, Pace Gallery, July 14–28, 2020.

2018

[SPACE] STREET. LIFE. PHOTOGRAPHY: Seven Decades of Street Photography, Haus der Photographie/Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, June 8–October 21, 2018. (Catalogue)

When Harry Met Aaron, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, January 11–February 24, 2018.

Recent Acquisitions, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California, January 5–April 27, 2018.

2017

(un)expected families, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 9, 2017–June 24, 2018.

New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Fotografie und Film, Bauhaus Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, November 15, 2017–March 5, 2018. (Catalogue)

Terre di Uomini, Fondazione Fotografia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy, October 27, 2017–January 7, 2018.

Modern Spirit: Important Vintage Photographs from a Private Collection, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, September 14–October 28, 2017.

Portraits: Fundación MAPFRE photography collection, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, June 22–September 3, 2017.

Reference, ROSEGALLERY, Los Angeles, June 17–August 19, 2017.

Beyond Fashion: Woman in Landscape, Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, May 11–June 30, 2017.

American Photographs, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, February 11–June 4, 2017.

MONOCHROME, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, January 20–March 4, 2017

2016

American Classics, Pace Gallery, London, November 25–December 17, 2016.

The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 29, 2016–May 7, 2017. (Catalogue)

Abstract Expressionism, Royal Academy of Art, London, September 24,2016–January 2, 2017. Traveled to: Guggenheim, Bilbao, February 3–June 4, 2017. (Catalogue)

Martin Beck: Fifty Photographs, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 16–September 24, 2016.

Make Light of It, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, July 7–August 24, 2016.

Back at the Water’s Edge, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, July 7–August 19, 2016.

How I Learned to See: An (Ongoing) Education in Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, June 30–August 20, 2016.

2015

Callahan, Dawid, Sugimoto, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, October 29–December 19, 2015. (Catalogue)

2014

Multi Panel, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, March 27–June 25, 2014.

2013

Color! American Photography Transformed, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, October 5, 2013–January 5, 2014. (Catalogue)

Looking Back Photography in the Seventies, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, October 1–November 22, 2013.

Subjective Photography: Adventures in the Visual Field, Kicken Gallery, Berlin, September 31, 2013–January 24, 2014.

(Re)viewing Bodies: Selected American Photographs, 1930-2000, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, February 8–March 7, 2013.

2011

Eye/Object: Photographs From the Collection of Jonathan Williams, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, July 1–August 1, 2011. (Catalogue)

Aspects of Color, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Berlin, April 30–June 4, 2011.

Harry Callahan and Jackson Pollock: Early Photographs and Drawings, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, in collaboration with Washburn Gallery, New York, March 3–April 16, 2011.

2010

Where in the World? Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, July 8–August 27, 2010.

NUDES - Positions of Nude Art Photography, Camera Work, Berlin, July 3–August 28, 2010.

Exposed, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 28, 2010–January 8, 2012.

Great Photographs of the 20th Century: Staged and Startled, Hasted Kraeutler, New York, March 25–May 21, 2010.

Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970–1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, February 10, 2010–January 2, 2011. (Catalogue)

2009

Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, November 25, 2009–February 14, 2010. (Catalogue)

Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, October 23, 2009–January 16, 2010.

Toward Abstraction: Photographs and Photograms, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, June 20–November 15, 2009.

This is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection, International Center of Photography, New York, January 16–May 3, 2009.

2007

Making a Photograph: Iconic Images and Their Origins, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, October 20, 2007–January 27, 2008. (Catalogue)

Hot & Bothered: Looking at the Landscape/Thinking about the World, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, July 11–August 24, 2007.

Relative Closeness: Photographs of Family and Friends, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, June 11–August 8, 2007.

2006

The Moon is Broken: Photography from Poetry, Poetry from Photography, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, November 11, 2006–July 8, 2007.

From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, November 3–December 20, 2006. (Catalogue)

The Beach, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, July 10–September 9, 2006.

Summer Vacation: Photographs from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, May 13–September 10, 2006. (Catalogue)

The David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, March 10–April 29, 2006.

American Photographers: Fine Prints, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, January 11–February 10, 2006.

2005

Group Exhibition, Galerie f5,6, Munich, Germany, November 26, 2005–January 28, 2006.

Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, July 30–December 4, 2005.

Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2–September 6, 2005. (Catalogue)

(people) In Series, In Sequence, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, February 10–March 19, 2005.

2004

In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 3–July 18, 2004. (Catalogue)

2003

Shop Windows, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, December 11, 2003–January 24, 2004.

2001

Evelyn Hofer Photographs since 1955 and Harry Callahan, Galerie m Bochum, Germany, March 31–June 27, 2001.

1994

The New Bauhaus: Graphic/Photographic Works by Moholy-Nagy and His Students, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, September 9–October 12, 1994.

1993

The New Bauhaus: School of Design in Chicago: Photographs 1937–1944, Banning and Associates, Chicago, October 7–November 5, 1993.

1990

Photography Until Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 18–May 29, 1990. (Catalogue)

1989

On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 7–July 30, 1989. Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, September 9–November 26, 1989 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990. (Catalogue)

1987

Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 4–August 30, 1987. Traveled to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, October 15, 1987–January 24, 1988; Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, February 13–April 3, 1988; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, May 6–June 26, 1988. (Catalogue)

1985

The New Spirit in American Photography, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 9–December 22, 1985. Traveled to: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, January 12–March 9, 1986. (Catalogue)

1983

Harry Callahan and His Students: A Study in Influence, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, 1983. (Catalogue)

1980

The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Institute of Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, July 12–October 26, 1980. (Catalogue)

Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, International Center for Photography, New York, May 23–July 13, 1980. (Catalogue)

1973

Landscape/Cityscape: A Selection of Twentieth Century American Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 13, 1973–January 6, 1974. (Catalogue)

1967

Photography in the Twentieth Century, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1967. Toured Canada and the United States between 1967 and 1973. (Catalogue)

1964

The Photographer's Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 27–August 23, 1964.

1963

The Photographer and the American Landscape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 24–December 1, 1963. (Catalogue)

1962

Twentieth Century American Art, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Michigan, 1962. (Catalogue)

Ideas in Images: an Exhibition of One Hundred Photographs by Ten Photographers: Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, Andreas Feininger, William Garnett, Gyorgy Kepes, Arnold Newman, Gordon Parks, Todd Webb, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, October 17–December 16, 1962. (Catalogue)

Eighth World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship, Helsinki, Finland, April 26–October 4, 1962. (Catalogue)

Photographs by Harry Callahan and Robert Frank, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 30–April 1, 1962.

1960

The Sense of Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960. (Catalogue)

1959

Photographer's Choice: publication in the service of photographers, Department of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2–24, 1959. (Catalogue)

Photography in the Fine Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota and the Seattle Art Museum, Washington.

Photography at Mid-century: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1959. (Catalogue)

1958

Abstract Photography: Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Arthur Siegel, Arthur Sinsabaugh, American Federation of Arts Circulating Exhibition, New York, 1958.

1957

Harry Callahan-Aaron Siskind: Photographs Americans, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, 1957.

1956

American Artists Paint the City, 28th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, United States Pavilion, Venice, 1956. (Catalogue)

Creative Photography 1956, Lexington Camera Club and the Department of Art of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1956. (Catalogue)

Five Photographers: Callahan, DeCarava, Hyde, Levinstein, Obsatz, A Photographer's Gallery, New York, 1956.

Selections from the Peabody Purchase Fund, Art Institute of Chicago, July 15–September 1, 1956. (Catalogue)

1955

The Family of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 24–1955. (Catalogue)

1954

Subjektive Fotografia 2, Staatlichen Schule fur Kunst und Hanwerk, Saarbruken, Germany, 1954–1955.

1953

Photographs Purchased from the Peabody Fund Donation, Art Institute of Chicago, 1953.

The Exhibition of Contemporary Photography: Japan and America 1953, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1953. (Catalogue)

1952

Diogenes with a Camera, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 20–September 1, 1952.

1951

Photokina [1951]: internationale Photo- und Kino-Ausstellung, Cologne, Germany, 1951. (Catalogue)

Twelve Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 12–August 12, 1951.

Abstractions in Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 1–July 4, 1951. (Catalogue)

1950

Photography, Mid-Century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 30–June 4, 1950. (Catalogue)

1948

Photographers by Bill Brandt, Ted Croner, Harry Callahan, Lisette Model, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 30, 1948–February 10, 1949.

50 Photographs by 50 Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 27–September 26, 1948.

In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today’s Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 6–July 11, 1948.

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio

American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

Art Institute of Chicago

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington

DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York

Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields Campus, Indiana

International Center of Photography, New York

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, New York Public Library

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

The Morgan Museum & Library, New York

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Museum of the City of New York

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson

Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Jose Museum of Art, California

Seattle Art Museum, Washington

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Tate Gallery, London

University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut