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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3552
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Fourth of July festivities, Jersey Homesteads, New Jersey)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 1939
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Jersey, Jersey Homesteads
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303215

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 12.6 x 18 cm (4 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
image: 10.4 x 16 cm (4 1/8 x 6 5/16 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
P1970.3552
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Diana L. Linden, Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI, 2015), p. 40, fig. 16, ill.

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