Harvard Art Museums > M25677: Folk Music Festival Poster, Roosevelt Memorial Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Folk Music Festival Poster, Roosevelt Memorial (Ben Shahn) , M25677,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/193105. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M25677 People Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY) Title Folk Music Festival Poster, Roosevelt Memorial Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1966 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/193105 Physical Descriptions Medium Offset photolithograph printed in black and yellow Technique Photolithograph Dimensions sheet: 55.5 x 35.1 cm (21 7/8 x 13 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: unsigned legend: below design (staff of music), printer's ink, offset photolithograph: Friends of old time music present traditional / FOLK MUSIC / at the first annual folk festival at the / ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL / in Roosevelt New Jersey on Saturday / OCTOBER 13 / at 7:30 pm. Admission $1.50. / From Georgia Jesse Fuller will sing / NEGRO BLUES / From North Carolina Doc Watson, Arnold Watson / OLD TIME / and Gaither Carlton will sing /COUNTRY MUSIC / Banjo - Fiddle - Guitar - Mouth Harp. [Lines of the legend in capital letters, printed in black, alternate with the legend in lower case letters, printed in black on yellow bands.] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1994; 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 M25677 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Verification Level This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
