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A black and white photograph of two men leaving a restaurant.

The black and white photograph shows two men wearing suits leaving a restaurant. The man in the foreground on the right is wearing a light-colored hat with a brim and using a cane. The man behind wears a cap. The restaurant menu is written on the window.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2460
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Bowery, 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/302729

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1320, Modern and Contemporary Art, Social Realism
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Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.2 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)
image: 16.4 x 24.7 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
P1970.2460
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Scenes from the Living Theatre--Sidewalks of New York", New Theatre (New York, NY, November 1934), 18
  • "Portraiture", U.S. Camera, William Morrow & Company (New York, NY, 1935 -1936), 83
  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 22

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
  • 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, 10/17/2019 - 06/02/2021; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2024 - 04/14/2025

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