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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.218
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Peace (Poster Design for the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Peace
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1969
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193414

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gouache, black ink, and collage on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
79 x 55.1 cm (31 1/8 x 21 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue gouache, center right: Ben Shahn
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Z-1398

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Ben Shahn; to [Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1988; 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
2002.218
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The dove, with black ink and stripes of gouache, has been cut out from a separate sheet and pasted down to the secondary support. Old adhesive all over recto in upper half.

Publication History

  • Ben Shahn, Love and Joy About Letters, Grossman Publishers (New York, NY, 1963), repr. in color p. 57

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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