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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.209
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Cover Design for "Memoirs Of My People: Jewish Self-Portraits from the 11th to the 20th Centuries," edited by Leo W. Schwarz
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1963
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192904

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on acetate over brown and green tissue paper collage elements, and black ink on Japanese paper
Technique
Collage
Dimensions
33.2 x 21 cm (13 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
acetate: 31.7 x 21.3 cm (12 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: center right, black ink: Ben Shahn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of Ben Shahn; to [Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1988; 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
2002.209
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Japanese paper with black ink, overlaid with tissue, overlaid with acetate. Signature is on Japanese paper. Tissue is mounted to Japanese paper with cellophane tape.

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. 11, ill.
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 1999-2000 (Cambridge, MA, 2001), repr. p. 28

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

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