Wales
1984
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View on museum website →Medium
dye imbibition print
Dimensions
overall (image): 24.3 x 36.7 cm (9 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.) sheet: 34.93 x 41.91 cm (13 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.) mat: 40.64 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Callahan Family
Accession Number
2011.95.28
Art Historical Context
Harry Callahan's *Wales* (1984) captures the artist's late-career fascination with landscape in a stunning dye imbibition print, a color process renowned for its vibrant hues, rich tonal depth, and archival permanence. Measuring 24.3 x 36.7 cm, this photograph evokes the rugged beauty of the Welsh countryside, rendered with Callahan's signature precision and abstraction. A master of modernist photography, Callahan (1912–1999) began experimenting with color in the 1940s, pushing beyond black-and-white straight photography toward innovative compositions that blurred representation and abstractio...
About the Artist
Harry Callahan
Harry Morey Callahan (1912–1999) was a pioneering American photographer whose self-taught ingenuity transformed everyday scenes into profound visual poetry. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he briefly studied engineering at Michigan State University before working at Chrysler, where he joined the company camera club. In 1938, Callahan took up photography as a hobby, but a 1941 lecture by Ansel Adams ins...