3 Cents an Hour / or Nothing / At One Time / This Southern Worker / Had No Choice / Thru Resettlement He Can Now Rent / or Own a Farm

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M22825
People: Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title: 3 Cents an Hour / or Nothing / At One Time / This Southern Worker / Had No Choice / Thru Resettlement He Can Now Rent / or Own a Farm
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: c. 1936
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/253455

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 86.2 x 56.2 cm (33 15/16 x 22 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: unsigned
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Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 11, 1995.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Accession Year: 1995
Object Number: M22825
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Diana L. Linden, Ben Shahn's New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI, 2015), p. 80, fig. 36, ill.

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