M25666: Be Careful
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25666
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Be Careful
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Resettlement Administration Safety Poster No. 3
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192733
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Poster; photolithograph printed in black and red
- Technique
- Photolithograph
- Dimensions
- sheet: 50.5 x 35.6 cm (19 7/8 x 14 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: unsigned
- legend: yes, below image, black printer's ink, photolithograph: BE CAREFUL / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION / SAFTEY POSTER NO. 3 115449-0 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1937
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
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
- M25666
- 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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