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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25682
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Credo
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1960
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192512

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screen print in blue
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 43.6 x 57.4 cm (17 3/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: unsigned
  • legend: below design, blue printer's ink, screen print, in artist's hand: I have the right to believe freely / to be a slave to no mans authority / If this be heresy so be it It is still / the truth To go against conscience is / neither right nor safe I cannot ..... / will not ..... recant Here I stand / No man can command my conscience

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
related
Standard Reference Number
P.40

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores S. Taller
Copyright
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
M25682
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/27/1999 - 03/26/2000

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