M25678: Princeton Needs Archie Alexander
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25678
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Princeton Needs Archie Alexander
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Princeton Needs a Housing Plan, campaign poster for Archie Alexander
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- poster, print
- Date
- 1968
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192810
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print printed in black and red on yellow cardboard
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: plate signed
- legend: entire surface of poster, printer's ink, screen print: PRINCETON NEEDS / A HOUSING PLAN / A TRAFFIC [hand] / [hand] SOLUTION / A YOUTH CENTER / MINIMIZED [hand] / [hand] TAXATION / A MAYOR [hand] AVAILABLE TO ALL PRINCETON NEEDS/ ARCHIE ALEXANDER / Paid for by Friends of Alexander [space] RAINIERI'S ART SERVICE HOPEWELL, N.J [The first line, last two lines, funders' and printer's identification, and pointing hands are printed in black; the lines conveying 'needs' are printed in red.]
- inscription: right edge of poster, printer's ink, screen print, signed, in artist's hand: Ben Shahn
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.196
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
- M25678
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- printed in colors; P. 196; 1968; the reverse of the poster bears an impression of the black screen only; see 'marks' for a description
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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