M25727: Frank Thompson (campaign poster)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M25727
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Frank Thompson (campaign poster)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- poster, print
- Date
- 1968
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/193075
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print in red and black on cardboard
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 71 x 56 cm (27 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: unsigned
- legend: the entire surface, printer's inks, screen print: FRANK THOMPSON / he was author of legislation creating / J.F.K. center for the performing Arts / he supports Federal aid to education / FRANK THOMPSON / he favors an end to Viet Nam war / he is the author of legislation / creating the National Foundation / for Arts and Humanities. / FRANK THOMPSON / he has 14 years of experience in the / United States Cpngress. / he has congressional seniority. / FRANK THOMPSON [The inscriptions make up the entire image. The name of the candidate is repeated at intervals in red, interspersed with his qualifications in black.]
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. 195
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
- M25727
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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