PHOTOGRAPHS
Callahan, Harry
U.S. (1912 - 1999)
Grasses, Wisconsin
1958
Gelatin silver print
8 x 12 1/4 in. (20.3 x 31.1 cm) image size; 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) sheet size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company
FA 97.217

Abstracted grasses evoking ideas of electric arcs and random motion imply an electrified landscape in Harry Callahan’s Grasses, Wisconsin. The rise in popularity of television, automobile, and picture windows during the 1950s offered artists and the public a new variety of perspectives from which to consider the world. Focusing on the abstractions offered by nature, Callahan created images that were in line with the abstract expressionist movement going on at the time.

-- Label copy for Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, February 10 to August 20, 2000.