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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3614
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (roadside inns, central Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 1938-August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303760

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 17.8 x 23.8 cm (7 x 9 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 1 [crossed out in graphite] 3 [circled]; inscribed in blue ink on verso and graphite (noted in parentheses), upper right to right center: Roadside Inns: [over] The figures of the body was ori- [over] ginally distributed to advertise [over] the Newark Indian Mounds. [over] Redecorated by the gas station [over] operator. Originally arms were [over] lifted in some sort of Indian [over] supplication. A number [over] (6584m1) a number of [over] these figures are still to be [over] seen in original posture [over] costume.; inscribed in red graphite on verso, right center: OK [underlined]; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center, upside down: 3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.3614
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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