P1970.3119: Untitled (Main Street, Plain City, Ohio)
PhotographsThe photograph shows a view of a section of a town’s main street. Buildings line both sides of the street, several cars are seen facing away from the viewer. Power poles with lines strung between and a traffic light are visible on the left. A sign just off the sidewalk in the right foreground advertises a triple dip for 5 cents with an image of a triple dip ice cream cone. Slightly behind on a post is an oval sign advertising new and used cars. A group of people are on the sidewalk in the background on the right.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.3119
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (Main Street, Plain City, Ohio)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- August 1938
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Plain City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/303001
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 16.7 x 24.3 cm (6 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: label on mat board, removed and placed in object file.: 56. Main Street / Plain City, Ohio, August, 1938 / Robert M. Sedgwick II Collection, Harvard University
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.3119
- 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), 109
Exhibition History
- Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975
- 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
- 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/02/2021
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