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A black and white photograph of a woman standing in the entrance of a market.

The photograph shows a woman on the right leaning against the side of the building in a doorway. She has short dark hair and has a white collar and a dark top. Her arms are crossed across her chest. She is looking slightly down and to the right. The window of the shop has two lines of Hebrew lettering with a figure in the center of a duck and a chicken on a grassy surface. The name R. Lapinkoff is written in script below and to the right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3143
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
East Side Merchants (Lower East Side, New York City)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
April 1936
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213977

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.3 x 23 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
mount, original: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto of the lower mount, lower left, blue ink, in artist's hand: East Side Merchant

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.3143
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/29/2015

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