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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.65
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (relief station, Urbana, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Urbana
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300103

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.4 x 23.6 cm (6 1/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 28 [circled]
  • inscription: verso, upper right, red graphite: 6621-M2
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Urbana Ohio, Aug 1938
    Wailing [sic] Outside
    Relief Station
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6621M2
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 28 [circled]; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: 6621-M2; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: Urbana Ohio, Aug 1938 [over] Waiting Outside [over] Relief Station; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6621M2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.65
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 143

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
  • Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975
  • 130 Years of Ohio Photography, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, 12/05/1978 - 12/31/1978
  • 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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