2002.218: Peace (Poster Design for the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2002.218

People

Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)

Title

Peace (Poster Design for the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Peace

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1969

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/193414

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gouache, black ink, and collage on heavy off-white wove paper

Dimensions

79 x 55.1 cm (31 1/8 x 21 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: blue gouache, center right: Ben Shahn
• inscription: verso, graphite: Z-1398

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

2002.218

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The dove, with black ink and stripes of gouache, has been cut out from a separate sheet and pasted down to the secondary support. Old adhesive all over recto in upper half.

Publication History

• Ben Shahn, Love and Joy About Letters, Grossman Publishers (New York, NY, 1963), repr. in color p. 57

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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