Harvard Art Museums > 2002.294: Confrontation Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Confrontation (Ben Shahn) , 2002.294,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/101468. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2002.294 People Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY) Title Confrontation Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1964 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/101468 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor on Japanese paper, mounted overall Dimensions 60.4 × 80.4 cm (23 3/4 × 31 5/8 in.) mat: 76.2 × 96.5 cm (30 × 38 in.) frame: 79.1 × 99.4 × 4.6 cm (31 1/8 × 39 1/8 × 1 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: black ink, l.r.: Ben Shahn exhibition label: back of frame, printed and typed: Exhibition label for 1983 exhibition at MFA, SFMOMA, and Amon Carter Museum. gallery label: back of frame, paper and black ink, printed and typed: THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY / 32 E. 51st St., New York / Artist: BEN SHAHN No.: 532 / Title: CONFRONTATION Date: 1964 / Medium: DRAWING Size: 32 x 24 S.P.:HELI. / [stamped:] JUL 1964 / [inscribed in graphite, upper right of label:] 130 (or 13V) label: paper and black ink, printed and typed: WILLIAM H. LANE FOUNDATION / Leominster, Massachusetts / No. L6637.5 - 0355 / Artist: BEN SHAHN / TItle: CONFRONTATION / Date: 1964 Medium: BL. W.C. Size: 24 x 32 / [typed upper right of label] 416.40 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Ben Shahn; to [Downtown Gallery, New York, New York, sold; to William H. and Saundra Lane, Leominster, Massachusetts,1966, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Saundra B. Lane in honor of James Cuno Copyright © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 2002 Object Number 2002.294 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Carol Troyen, The Lane Collection: 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. no. 88, repr. (color) Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2002-2003 (Cambridge, MA, 2004), repr. p. 18 Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 36-37, repr. as fig. 5 on p. 37 Exhibition History William H. Lane Foundation: Contemporary American Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, 11/24/1968 - 01/11/1969 Twentieth Century American Art from the William H. Lane Foundation, Amherst College Art Museum, Amherst, 10/10/1973 - 11/11/1973 William H. Lane Foundation Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 11/20/1973 - 01/24/1974 Selections from the William H. Lane Foundation, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, 03/17/1975 - 05/24/1975 American Art: Selections from the William H. Lane Foundation, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 03/21/1978 - 06/04/1978 Selections from the William H. Lane Foundation: Part II, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, 01/22/1979 - 03/11/1979 The Lane Collection: 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/13/1983 - 08/07/1983; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 10/01/1983 - 12/01/1983; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 01/07/1984 - 03/05/1984 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu