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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.136
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (workers' housing, Hartman Farms, Columbus, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Columbus
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300225

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 12.1 x 24 cm (4 3/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 4 (circled)
  • inscription: verso, top center, blue ink, in artist's hand: These are the houses the workmen live
    in.
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 6466-M5
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 4 [circled]; inscribed in blue ink, upper center to upper right: These are the houses the workmen live [over] in.; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6466-m5; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center, upside down: 4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.136
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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