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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24906
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Laissez-Faire
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1947
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192502

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screen print in colors
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 42.5 x 58.2 cm (16 3/4 x 22 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Ben Shahn
  • inscription: lower left of design area, black printer's ink, screenprinted, signed, in artist's hand: printed signature: Ben Shahn
  • inscription: lower left, black printer's ink, sreenprinted: Pippin Press copyright symbol

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
P. 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores Taller
Copyright
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
M24906
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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. 7, ill.
  • Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), p. 197, ill. (color)

Verification Level

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