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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1998.137
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Untitled (Ben Shahn, Jersey Homesteads)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1936-1939, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Jersey, Jersey Homesteads
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193826

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 17.9 x 18.5 cm (7 1/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: copy print made from
    original 2 x 2" in Bernarda
    Bryson Shahn personal collection,
    Roosevelt, N.J. (LK)
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: BS with Leica and
    right angle viewfinder,
    Roosevelt, NJ c. 1939?
    (LK)
  • label: verso, upper right: [printer's label]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
P1998.137
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Dawoud Bey, Dawoud Bey: The Chicago Project, exh. cat., David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Chicago, 2003), p. 101, fig. 1
  • Barbara Buhler Lynes and Jonathan Weinberg, ed., Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, exh. cat., University of California Press and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2011), p. 11, ill.

Verification Level

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