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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.62
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (family on relief, near 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/300256

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.7 x 23.5 cm (6 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 28 [circled]
  • inscription: verso, top center, graphite: Do not k...ha.... this mountie.
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6625M2
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 28 [circled]; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: Do not kill [over] have this mounted.; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6625M2

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.62
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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