Design for a Bookplate ("Triciput Ex Libris Erich Kahler")

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2002.161
People: 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

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
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: 2002.161
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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