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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.162
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Plain City, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Plain City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300242

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 13.3 x 24 cm (5 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 27 (circled)
  • inscription: verso, upper right, red graphite: 6646 - M1
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6646 M1
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 6646 M1 (written vertically from bottom to top)
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 27 [circled]; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: 6646-M1; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6646M1; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center to center, oriented vertically: 6646M1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.162
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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