2002.215: Chinese Character for Music/Joy (Yuè/Lè) ("Where music is there is joy")
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.215
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Chinese Character for Music/Joy (Yuè/Lè) ("Where music is there is joy")
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: "Where Music Is There Is Joy"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1960
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/192902
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 44.7 x 57.5 cm (17 5/8 x 22 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Estate of Ben Shahn; to [Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1989; 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
- Copyright
- © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.215
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/17/2014 - 02/13/2015
Verification Level
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