P1970.2873: Untitled (New York City)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2873
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (New York City)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1932-1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/302939
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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mount; vintage (mount, vintage): 18.5 x 24.3 cm (7 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
image: 16.4 x 22.6 cm (6 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: verso of mount, upper right, blue ink: NOTE ORIGIN OF "DEMOCRA-
CIES FEAR PEACE
OFFENSIVE" N.Y. 1935-'36
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inscription: verso of mount, upper right, blue ink: NOTE ORIGIN OF "DEMOCRA-
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2873
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), p. 122, ill. (color)
Exhibition History
- Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist, Photograph, Painting and Graphic Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, 12/03/2011 - 01/29/2012; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, 02/11/2012 - 03/25/2012; The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama-shi, 04/08/2012 - 05/20/2012
- Painting for the People: Ben Shahn and the Art of Social Justice, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 10/03/2023 - 02/26/2024
Verification Level
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