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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.158
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/300285

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.7 x 23.7 cm (6 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 27 (circled)
  • inscription: verso, top right, black ink, in artist's hand: Amish vehicles
  • inscription: verso, top right, red graphite: 6648 - M5
  • inscription: verso, upper right, blue graphite: Amish
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6648M5
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 27 [circled]; inscribed in black ink on verso, upper right: Amish vehicles [over] Amish [in blue graphite]; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: 6648-M5; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6648M5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.158
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Verification Level

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