P1970.722: Untitled (New York City)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1970.722

People

Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)

Title

Untitled (New York City)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1932-1934

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/301948

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.4 x 24.8 cm (6 7/16 x 9 3/4 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

P1970.722

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), 1
• Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, ed., American Moderns on Paper: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 120-121, ill.

Exhibition History

• Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
• Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975
• The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 08/19/1977 - 09/11/1977; Hayward Gallery, London, 09/28/1977 - 11/20/1977

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