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A black and white photograph of a woman wearing a head scarf and apron.

The black and white photograph shows a woman on the left wearing a head scarf, a sweater, with a soiled apron., her hands in her pocket, she is facing the viewer. Behind her are wooden boxes of vegetables on a table. A wooden palette is standing upright immediately behind her. There is a dark space behind her on the left side. In the upper right corner is a glass case filled with light colored objects.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2854
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
East Side Merchant (New York City)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1932-1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302685

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount (original mount): 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 18.9 x 24 cm (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of mount, lower left, purple ink, in artist's hand: East Side merchant
  • inscription: in ink on the mount in the lower left corner: "East Side merchant"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2854
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), p. 88, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist, Photograph, Painting and Graphic Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, 12/03/2011 - 01/29/2012; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, 02/11/2012 - 03/25/2012; The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama-shi, 04/08/2012 - 05/20/2012
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/29/2015 - 10/14/2015
  • Painting for the People: Ben Shahn and the Art of Social Justice, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 10/03/2023 - 02/26/2024

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