M24930: And Mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M24930
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- And Mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1965
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192629
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Screen print in red with black calligraphy
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 59 x 46.5 cm (23 1/4 x 18 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: lower right of design area, red oil paint, stamped: artist's signature chopmark
- legend: lower margin, printer's ink, screen printed, Hebrew, in artist's hand: from Jeremiah 9:1: Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain daughters of my people!
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- P. 60
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive, Gift of Dolores Taller
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- M24930
- 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. 9
Verification Level
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