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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24923
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Poet
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1960
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192561

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 101.8 x 68 cm (40 1/16 x 26 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Ben Shahn
  • inscription: lower right, red ink, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Ben Shahn

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. 43

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
M24923
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. 8

Verification Level

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