"This book is published by O.W.I. to further the war effort. It hopes to make you understand the farmer and what he's doing to help win this war. When you have finished reading this please pass it on to someone who has not already read it."

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.189
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: "This book is published by O.W.I. to further the war effort. It hopes to make you understand the farmer and what he's doing to help win this war. When you have finished reading this please pass it on to someone who has not already read it."
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Dear Adolf: This Is Me-- This is Me One American Farmer
Classification: Books
Work Type: book
Date: 1942
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/191477

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

folded sheet: 26.6 x 20.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: cover, graphite: 13884

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California; to Dolores Taller, gift; to 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: 2002.189
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Booklet made up of seven sheets, folded and stapled. Pages numbered sequentially in graphite (rectos and versos numbered separately). Notes inscribed throughout about typesetting, etc.

Publication History

Stephen Lee Taller and Frances K. Pohl, Remembering Ben Shahn: Selections from the Stephen Lee Taller Collection, exh. cat., Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California, 1998), p. 10.

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2002.189: "This book is published by O.W.I. to further the war effort. It hopes to make you understand the farmer and what he's doing to help win this war. When you have finished reading this please pass it on to someone who has not already read it."

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