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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M22839
People
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, American (Athens, Ohio 1903 - 2004 Roosevelt, New Jersey)
Title
A Mule and a Plow / Resettlement Administration / Small Loans Give Farmers a New Start
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1935
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/233061

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Offset photolithograph printed in colors
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 95.2 x 62.9 cm (37 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: plate signed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bernard Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 13, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
M22839
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
A Mule and a Plow/Resettlement Administration... (poster); offset photolithograph in colors; c. 1935 (buckled condition)

Publication History

  • Jake Wien, The Vanishing American Frontier: Bernarda Bryson Shahn and her historical lithographs created for the Resettlement Administration of FDR, exh. cat., Wien American (New York, NY, 1995), no. 17

Verification Level

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