P2000.56: Untitled (copy photograph of Ben Shahn's Rikers Island Penitentiary mural study: prisoners and visitors [2])
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P2000.56
- People
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Attributed to Walker Evans, American (St. Louis, Mo., USA 1903 - 1975 New Haven, Conn., USA)
- Title
- Untitled (copy photograph of Ben Shahn's Rikers Island Penitentiary mural study: prisoners and visitors [2])
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1934-1935
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/174634
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Ben Shahn, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000. Stephen Lee Taller found this object in the former studio of Ben Shahn.
Ben Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Walker Evans?, 1935, [death], 1969.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- P2000.56
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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