M25436: This Is Nazi Brutality
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25436
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- This Is Nazi Brutality
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- print, poster
- Date
- 1942
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192758
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Photolithograph
- Dimensions
- 96.2 x 71.76 cm (37 7/8 x 28 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: plate signed
- legend: center area of sheet, printer's ink, lithographed: This is Nazi Brutality / RADIO BERLIN. -- IT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED:- / ALL MEN OF LIDICE - CZECHOSLOVAKIA - HAVE BEEN SHOT: / THE WOMEN DEPORTED TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP: / THE CHILDREN SENT TO APPRORIATE CENTERS-- THE / NAME OF THE VILLAGE WAS IMMEDIATELY ABOLISHED. / 6/11/42/115P [The subtext is printed on yellow bands, as if from a teletype or telegram.]
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
- Standard Reference Number
- P.144
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
- M25436
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 6
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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