- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2002.294
- People
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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
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- Medium
- Watercolor on Japanese paper, mounted overall
- Dimensions
- 60.4 x 80.4 cm (23 3/4 x 31 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- Publication History
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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
- Exhibition History
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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
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