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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2482
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Smithland, Kentucky)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Kentucky, Smithland
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303545

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.7 x 24.3 cm (6 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left and center: Circus poster in Smithland, Kentucky, Photo by Shahn [over] in [over] Sept. 1935; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: 19 [circled and over] 6079 [over] M5P; stamped in black ink on verso, upper center: Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 19 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Museum Acquisition
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2482
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), 115

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969

Verification Level

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