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A black and white photograph of a group of demonstrators in an urban landscape.

The black and white photograph shows a large group of men and women marching along a city street. Several of the people hold placards with slogans which are not legible. Most of the men and women have their right arms raised, bent at the elbow with hands clenched in a fist. There is a view of a street lined with buildings behind them on the right side.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2818
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Theatre Union demonstrators, May Day Parade, Communist Party route, New York City)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
May 1, 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303262

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
mount (original mount): 16.2 x 23.2 cm (6 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
image: 15.2 x 22.7 cm (6 x 8 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower right, graphite, in artist's hand: 1933
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso of the mount, lower right corner: 1933

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2818
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), 16

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Ben Shahn and the Task of Photography in Thirties America, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, 02/08/1995 - 03/25/1995; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 04/09/1995 - 06/10/1995; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 09/09/1995 - 10/28/1995
  • 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
  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015

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