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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25733
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Welders (For Full Employment After the War)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, poster
Date
1944
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192907

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Photolithograph in colors
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 76.5 × 101.1 cm (30 1/8 × 39 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: plate signed

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. 147

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
M25733
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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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, ill.
  • Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), p. 187, ill. (color)

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