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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24930
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
And Mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
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
  • 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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