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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2807
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Liberty, Scotts Run, West Virginia)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, West Virginia, Scotts Run
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302956

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 18.7 x 24.8 cm (7 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper left, oriented vertically: C-20; inscribed in red ink on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 35; inscribed in blue graphite on verso, upper right: 79; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: Ra-6616M-2; inscribed in graphite on verso, center, upside down: 6116; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 82 [circled]; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center to lower right: Liberty Unincorporated - Scotts Run; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2807
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 81

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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