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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2794
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (deckhand, Queen of Dycusburg, Memphis, Tennessee)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Tennessee, Memphis
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302861

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.6 x 24.6 cm (7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: dup. of [over] 129; inscribed in black crayon on verso, center, upside down: 6082; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: O-1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2794
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), 76

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975

Verification Level

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