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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25438
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Break Reaction's Grip Register Vote
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1946
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192577

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Poster; photolithograph printed in colors
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
104.78 x 73.66 cm (41 1/4 x 29 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: plate signed
  • legend: lower center, printer's ink, lithographed: union seals: CIO Political Action Committe, L.I.P.A.B.A, S.A. No.1, N.Y.

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

Standard Reference Number
P.154

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
M25438
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Stephen Lee Taller and Frances K. Pohl, Remembering Ben Shahn: Selections from the Stephen Lee Taller Collection, exh. cat., Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California, 1998), p. 3 (ill.), 6

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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