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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M22828
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
The Sheriff's Sale / Faces over a Million American Farmers / Resettlements Farm Debt Adjustment / Will Help Save Their Farms
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1936
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/253458

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet: 86.7 x 58.4 cm (34 1/8 x 23 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: unsigned
  • inscription: graphite: 37

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
Copyright
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
M22828
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), p. 117, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Painting for the People: Ben Shahn and the Art of Social Justice, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 10/03/2023 - 02/26/2024

Verification Level

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