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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24924
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Psalm 133
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1960
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192675

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Screen print in colors
Technique
Screen print
Dimensions
sheet: 51.5 x 61.7 cm (20 1/4 x 24 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: plate signed
  • inscription: lower right corner, black ink, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: signature: Ben Shahn
  • inscription: lower edge, to right, graphite, handwritten, in artist's hand: title: A Song of Degrees of David - Psalm 133

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. 45

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
M24924
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. 5 (ill.), 8

Verification Level

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