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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2819
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (cotton pickers, Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302479

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.2 x 24.6 cm (7 9/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink and crossed out in blue ink (blue ink inscriptions also noted in parentheses) on tape affixed to verso, upper left: dup. of [over] 114 (H); inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: G32; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Clarissa - Cotton Picker; inscribed in black crayon and graphite (noted in parentheses) on verso, lower center: RA6028M(2); inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2819
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 38
  • Naomi Rosenblum, World History of Photography, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1984), 381

Exhibition History

  • Power of Pictures: Social Documentary Photography in America, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 11/27/2004 - 01/16/2005

Verification Level

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