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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3171
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (sharecropper, Arkansas)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303513

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.8 x 24.3 cm (6 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: printer's marks inscribed in red ink and crossed out in orange crayon on recto, upper left and lower left and right; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left and center: Arkansas sharecropper. Photo by Shahn, Oct. 1935.; inscribed in blue graphite on verso, upper right: 44; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: 21047 [over] 6163 [over] M3p; inscribed in red ink on masking tape affixed to verso, upper left: dup. of [over] #78; inscribed in black ink on verso, upper right: 331 [circled]; stamped in black ink on verso, upper center: Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: Shahn [circled]; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: Arkansas sharecropper, 1935.; inscribed in red ink on verso, right center: 1416 [over] 9-5 [over] 100C; inscribed in red graphite on verso, lower left: PHOTO 1 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Museum Acquisition
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.3171
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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