Untitled (Lower East Side, New York City)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: P1970.2944
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: Untitled (Lower East Side, New York City)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: April 1936
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/302960

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: sheet; actual: 20.2 x 25.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.6 x 24.8 cm (7 11/16 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: P1970.2944
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Max Kozloff, New York: Capital of Photography, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York and New Haven, CT, 2002), p. 26/fig. 6

Exhibition History

HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 02/04/2011 - 04/24/2011; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 05/20/2011 - 09/11/2011

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