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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1975.66
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Self-Portrait with Palette (Study for Fogg Art Museum Poster)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1956
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309064

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gouache on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.8 x 19.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.r.: Ben Shahn / Nov. 1956
  • inscription: in image, on palette, black ink, in artist's hand: Ben Shahn / Fogg Art Museum / Harvard University / December 4 to January 19
  • inscription: lower edge, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: For John Coolidge. Ben Shahn Nov 1956

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ben Shahn, gift; to John Coolidge, 1956, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1975.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John P. Coolidge
Copyright
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1975
Object Number
1975.66
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ben Shahn, Love and Joy About Letters, Grossman Publishers (New York, NY, 1963), repr. in color p. 51

Verification Level

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