P1970.2821: Untitled (New York City Reformatory, New Hampton, New York)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1970.2821

People

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

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

• 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

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