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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25667
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Wallace
Other Titles
Alternate Title: campaign poster for George Wallace
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1948
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192881

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Poster; offset photolithographin red, blue, yellow, and black
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 37.5 x 58 cm (14 3/4 x 22 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: unsigned
  • legend: as if on a billboard in a landscape, printer's ink, offset photolithograph: [placard texts, repeated in various color combinations:] PEACE DEMOCRACY PROSPERITY
    [candidate's name:] WALLACE
    [The pictorial part of the design reproduces a photograph of a billboard in a landsscape in black and white; on the billboard's surface, the text on placards is applied in colors, with the candidate's name below in black and white.]
  • legend: lower left corner, printer's ink, offset photolithograph: AMALGAMATED LITHOGRAPHERS OF AMERICA LOCAL NO. 1 NEW YORK [union label]

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
M25667
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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

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