Cat's Cradle | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M24921
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: Cat's Cradle
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Cat's Cradle with Water
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1959
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/192619

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Screen print in black and blue

Technique

Screen print

Dimensions

sheet: 51.7 x 67.3 cm (20 3/8 x 26 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: hand signed
inscription: lower right, red crayon, 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. 38

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores Taller
Accession Year: 2000
Object Number: M24921
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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M24921: Cat's Cradle