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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.73
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Marysville, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 1938-August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Marysville
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300090

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.7 x 24.1 cm (6 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 26 [circled]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, black ink: Farm machinery graveyard in agricultural country comparable to the auto graveyards of industrial etc. places
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6620M3
  • inscription: verso, lower left, red graphite: 6620-M3
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 26 [circled]; inscribed in black ink on verso, upper right: Farm machinery graveyard in agricultural country comparable [over] to the auto graveyards of industrial etc. [over] places; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6620M3; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: 6620-M3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.73
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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