Harvard Art Museums > P1970.2799: Untitled (Stuart Davis and Roselle Springer among Artists' Union demonstrators, Division IX, May Day Parade, Communist Party route, Twenty-fifth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City) Photographs Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Untitled (Stuart Davis and Roselle Springer among Artists' Union demonstrators, Division IX, May Day Parade, Communist Party route, Twenty-fifth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City) (Ben Shahn) , P1970.2799,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/310777. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number P1970.2799 People Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY) Title Untitled (Stuart Davis and Roselle Springer among Artists' Union demonstrators, Division IX, May Day Parade, Communist Party route, Twenty-fifth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City) Classification Photographs Work Type photograph Date May 1, 1935, printed later Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/310777 Physical Descriptions Technique Gelatin silver print Dimensions sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.) image: 16.3 x 23.3 cm (6 7/16 x 9 3/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, upper left to upper right, graphite: May Day, Artists Union demonstration, New York City, 1935 Ben Shahn inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: (by an assistant of Davis Pratt:): neg. in print room Provenance Recorded Ownership History Bernarda Bryson Shahn, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1970. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College Object Number P1970.2799 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 17 Jennifer McComas, Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural, exh. cat., Eskenazi Museum of Art and Yale University Press (Bloomington and New Haven, 2020), p. 86, ill. (b/w) Exhibition History 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 The Construction of the World - Art and the Economy, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, 10/11/2018 - 02/03/2019 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
