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A black and white photograph of man playing the accordion on a city street.

The photograph shows a balding man playing the accordion in the center foreground. There are groups of people on either side and behind him. A sign that reads Liggett’s Drugs is in the upper right corner. In the background, a section of the elevated railway is visible with multi-story buildings on the left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3146
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Fourteenth Street, 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/303102

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount; vintage (mount, vintage): 16.6 x 24.6 cm (6 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
image: 16.1 x 24.1 cm (6 5/16 x 9 1/2 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
P1970.3146
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Tracy Fitzpatrick, When Modern Was Contemporary: The Roy R. Neuberger Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY, 2014), p. 189, fig. 2, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/02/2021

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