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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2813
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Mulhall family, sharecroppers, Ozarks, Arkansas)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas, Ozarks
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302725

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 17.8 x 24.6 cm (7 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 75; inscribed in red crayon and covered by tape affixed to verso, upper right: M-86; inscribed in blue graphite and crossed by red crayon on tape affixed to verso, upper right: 59; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: RA6068M5; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Ozark People - Off Relief; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower left to lower right: Wife and children of share-croppers. [crossed out] Oct. 1935; inscribed in black crayon on verso, lower center: RA6068M; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 55 [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
P1970.2813
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), 57

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

Verification Level

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