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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.238
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Town Hall, Urbana, Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1938
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio, Urbana
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300271

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16.5 x 24 cm (6 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, top left, graphite: 29 (circled)
  • inscription: verso, top right, red graphite: 6645 - M4
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 6645 - M4
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left: 29 [circled]; inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: 6645-M4; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: 6645m4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.238
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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