Untitled (Jenkins, Kentucky) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: P1970.1234
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: Untitled (Jenkins, Kentucky)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: October 1935
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, Kentucky, Jenkins
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/301654

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 24.6 cm (7 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright: © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number: P1970.1234
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), 89

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

Verification Level

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