To Give Them a Break... Register Vote

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M25437
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: To Give Them a Break... Register Vote
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1946
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/192576

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Poster; photolithograph printed in colors

Technique

Photolithograph

Dimensions

100.97 x 75.57 cm (39 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: unsigned
legend: lower left and lower right, black printer's ink, lithographed: union labels: left: CIO Political Action Committee; right: L.I.A.L.B.A., N.Y., S.A. No.1

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores S. Taller
Accession Year: 2002
Object Number: M25437
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

Verification Level

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