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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.1278
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Forest Hills, Scotts Run, West Virginia)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: "The relief check has come." Forest Hills, Scott's 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/301244

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.3 x 24.7 cm (7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: E 28; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: Ra-6128M-2; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upside down, center: 6128; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Scotts Run W.V The Relief check has come.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.1278
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 41

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
  • American Photographs at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972

Verification Level

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