P1970.2821: Untitled (New York City Reformatory, New Hampton, New York)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2821
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (New York City Reformatory, New Hampton, New York)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- May 1934-June 1934
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New Hampton
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/287081
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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sheet; actual: 20.6 x 25.6 cm (8 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 18 x 24.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: veros, upper left to center, graphite: New Hampdon [sic] Reformatory, N.Y. 1934
- inscription: verso, upper left to center, graphite: (by an assistant of Davis Pratt:): negative in fogg collection - print room
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2821
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 31
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
Verification Level
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