P1970.3121: Untitled (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1970.3121

People

Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled (Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

October 1935

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, Tennessee, Murfreesboro

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/285895

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet; actual: 20.2 x 25.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.5 x 24.6 cm (7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 46; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: 6143; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: Q-47; inscribed in blue graphite on verso, upper right: 8; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 8 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Copyright

© President and Fellows of Harvard College

Object Number

P1970.3121

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Benjamin Hubbard Caldwell, Jr., Art of Tennessee, exh. cat., Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, 2003), p. 247, plate 182

Exhibition History

• Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist, Photograph, Painting and Graphic Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, 12/03/2011 - 01/29/2012; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, 02/11/2012 - 03/25/2012; The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama-shi, 04/08/2012 - 05/20/2012

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