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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.2812
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (Mulhall family, sharecroppers, Ozarks, Arkansas)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Arkansas, Ozarks
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302724

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 19.6 x 24.6 cm (7 11/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in red crayon on verso, upper right: M-39; inscribed in graphite on verso, center: negative out [over] RA6031M4; inscribed in grpahite on verso, lower right: 6031

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.2812
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), 54
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, 130

Exhibition History

  • Ben Shahn, Photographer, Fitchburg Art Museum, 10/05/1975 - 10/31/1975
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

Verification Level

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