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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2773
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Louisiana, Plaquemines
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302717

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.7 x 24.7 cm (6 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: printer's marks in black crayon inscribed on verso; inscribed in red ink and crossed out in red crayon on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 29; inscribed in blue graphite and crossed out in red crayon on verso, upper right: 40; inscribed in graphite on verso, center, upside down: 6156-2; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left: K-20 [crossed out]; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Unemployed trapper. Placquemine [over] Parish, Louisiana Oct. 1935; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 40 [circled]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2773
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 45

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn as Photographer, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/29/1969 - 12/14/1969
  • Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975

Verification Level

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