2002.176: Cover Design for "Maximus of Tyre: On The Dispute About Images" [Text]

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2002.176

People

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

Title

Cover Design for "Maximus of Tyre: On The Dispute About Images" [Text]

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1964

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/190547

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, graphite, red pencil, and collage on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

19.1 x 32.5 cm (7 1/2 x 12 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black ink, l.r.: Ben Shahn
• gallery label: verso, paper, typed and printed: no. BS#143 / (2640); neg. no. 9073
• inscription: l.r., red pencil: [written vertically:] [ ] URN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ben Shahn; to Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 1969; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores S. Taller

Copyright

© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Accession Year

2002

Object Number

2002.176

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This design is composed of several pieces of off-white wove paper cellophane taped to a larger piece. The artist has signed the larger sheet but also the piece taped over the original signature.

Exhibition History

• The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/27/1999 - 03/26/2000

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