2002.161: Design for a Bookplate ("Triciput Ex Libris Erich Kahler")
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.161
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Design for a Bookplate ("Triciput Ex Libris Erich Kahler")
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1956
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/193471
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15 x 12.5 cm (5 7/8 x 4 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, l.r., in image: Ben Shahn
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Ben Shahn; to Erich Kahler, 1956; to Alice Kahler, New Haven, Connecticut, 1970, sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California 1990; 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
- 2002.161
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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