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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M13334
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Phoenix (exhibition poster)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1956
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261512

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screen print in black with hand coloring
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 70 x 56.3 cm (27 9/16 x 22 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: hand signed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ben Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, February 5, 1957.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
P XVII, 165; P. 13; P. 14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ben Shahn
Copyright
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1957
Object Number
M13334
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Poster for exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum, 1956-57. The phoenix serigraph beneath the lettering is from 1952.

Publication History

  • Kenneth W. Prescott, The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn, Quadrangle (New York, NY, 1973), pp. 16, 130, 137, fig. 165

Verification Level

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