M14300: Caliban
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M14300
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Caliban
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: "Calabanes," also "TV Antenna"
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1953
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/260756
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print in black
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 64.5 x 98.4 cm (25 3/8 x 38 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: signed
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, June 14, 1965.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 7
- Standard Reference Number
- P. 20
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Paul J. Sachs
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- M14300
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Caliban or Calabanes or TV Antennae; screen print in black; P. 20; 1953
Publication History
- Courtney J. Martin, Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffride Collection of Abstract Art, Gregory R. Miller & Co. (New York, NY, 2019), p. 26, fig. 9, ill. (color)
Verification Level
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