P1970.2926: Untitled (Sig. Klein Fat Men's Shop, 52 Third Avenue, New York City)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1970.2926

People

Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled (Sig. Klein Fat Men's Shop, 52 Third Avenue, New York City)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1935-1936

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/302783

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

mount (original mount): 19.6 x 25.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 19 x 24.5 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso of mount, lower right, upside down, graphite, in artist's hand: N.Y. - c. 1933

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Copyright

© President and Fellows of Harvard College

Object Number

P1970.2926

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sara Blair, How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ and Oxfordshire, England, 2018), pp. 144-145, fig. 4.9, ill.

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

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