P1998.137: Untitled (Ben Shahn, Jersey Homesteads)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1998.137

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Untitled (Ben Shahn, Jersey Homesteads)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

c. 1936-1939, printed later

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New Jersey, Jersey Homesteads

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/193826

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.9 x 18.5 cm (7 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: copy print made from
  original 2 x 2" in Bernarda
  Bryson Shahn personal collection,
  Roosevelt, N.J. (LK)
• inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: BS with Leica and
  right angle viewfinder,
  Roosevelt, NJ c. 1939?
  (LK)
• label: verso, upper right: [printer's label]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Accession Year

1998

Object Number

P1998.137

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dawoud Bey, Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project, exh. cat., David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, 2003), p. 101, fig. 1
• Barbara Buhler Lynes and Jonathan Weinberg, ed., Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, exh. cat., University of California Press and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2011), p. 11, ill.

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