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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.1450
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Natchez, Mississippi)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Mississippi, Natchez
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/301488

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.1 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 17.3 x 24.7 cm (6 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, center: RA-6093M-4; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center, upside down: 6093; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: Q-74

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.1450
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • 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. 115, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 02/04/2011 - 04/24/2011; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 05/20/2011 - 09/11/2011

Verification Level

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