P1970.2481: Untitled (cotton pickers, Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2481
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (cotton pickers, Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- October 1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/300306
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.5 x 24.7 cm (7 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: A8; inscribed in red ink on masking tape affixed to verso, upper left: 57; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: 67; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: C-48 (crossed out in graphite); inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: 62204; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 71 (circled)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2481
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 34
- Susan H. Edwards, Ben Shahn and the Task of Photography in Thirties America, exh. cat., Hunter College Art Gallery (New York, NY, 1995), 9
- Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
Exhibition History
- Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
- Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975
- Ben Shahn and the Task of Photography in Thirties America, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, 02/08/1995 - 03/25/1995; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 04/09/1995 - 06/10/1995; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 09/09/1995 - 10/28/1995
Verification Level
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