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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2805
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Freeze Fork, Scotts Run, West Virginia)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, West Virginia, Scotts Run
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300307

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 18.2 x 24.6 cm (7 3/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: 25 (crossed out in red crayon); inscribed in red crayon on verso: D-82 (crossed out); inscribed in red ink on masking tape affixed to verso, upper left: 88 (crossed out in red crayon); inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: View of Freeze Fork, Scott's Run, West VA, 1935; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: RA 6130M2; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: 6150; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 29 (circled)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2805
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), 86
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn: A Retrospective, 1898-1969, Jewish Museum, New York, 10/12/1976 - 01/02/1977; University of Georgia, Athens, 01/27/1977 - 03/17/1977; Spertus Museum, Chicago, 04/11/1977 - 05/23/1977; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 06/23/1977 - 08/11/1977; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 09/05/1977 - 10/24/1977; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 11/17/1977 - 01/15/1978
  • Ben Shahn and the Task of Photography in Thirties America, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 04/09/1995 - 06/10/1995; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 09/09/1995 - 10/28/1995

Verification Level

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