M25682: Credo
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25682
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Credo
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1960
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192512
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print in blue
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.6 x 57.4 cm (17 3/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: unsigned
- legend: below design, blue printer's ink, screen print, in artist's hand: I have the right to believe freely / to be a slave to no mans authority / If this be heresy so be it It is still / the truth To go against conscience is / neither right nor safe I cannot ..... / will not ..... recant Here I stand / No man can command my conscience
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- related
- Standard Reference Number
- P.40
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
- M25682
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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