M24935: Ecclesiastes
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M24935
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Ecclesiastes
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1966
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192631
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print in sepia with calligraphy in black
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 57.4 x 45 cm (22 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- legend: lower margin, printer's ink, screen printed, Hebrew, in artist's hand: from Ecclesiastes 11:19: Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
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. 69
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
- M24935
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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