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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2806
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Scotts Run, West Virginia)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, West Virginia, Scotts Run
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302723

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 17.7 x 24.7 cm (6 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red ink and crossed out in red crayon on tape affixed to verso, upper left: 34; inscribed in red crayon and crossed out in red crayon on verso, upper right: E16; inscribed in blue graphite and crossed out in red crayon on verso, upper right: 70; inscribed in graphite on verso, upper center: RA-6115M-3; inscribed in graphite on verso, center, upside down: 6115; inscribed in blue graphite on verso, lower left to lower center: Sunday, Scott's Run, West Va. 1935; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower right: 26 [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
P1970.2806
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), 85

Verification Level

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