Like a response to yesterday’s post, “The Artist’s Wife: A Constant Muse Who Never Said No”:
“I never refused when he wanted to take a picture,” said Eleanor Callahan, the 91-year-old widow of the photographer Harry Callahan. “I never complained, whatever I was doing. If he said: ‘Come quick, Eleanor — there’s a good light,’ I was right there.”
The artistic fruit of their 63-year marriage is on view in “Harry Callahan: Eleanor,” an exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Until Callahan’s death in 1999, she was his most constant and compliant subject, posing for countless portraits, figure studies and nudes.
Oh man. Sometimes I see couples like that and I turn to my husband and say, I want to be married to you FOREVER.
I’m with you.