P1970.2460: Untitled (Bowery, New York City)
PhotographsThe black and white photograph shows two men wearing suits leaving a restaurant. The man in the foreground on the right is wearing a light-colored hat with a brim and using a cane. The man behind wears a cap. The restaurant menu is written on the window.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2460
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (Bowery, New York City)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1932-1934
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/302729
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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sheet; actual: 20.2 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)
image: 16.4 x 24.7 cm (6 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2460
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- "Scenes from the Living Theatre--Sidewalks of New York", New Theatre (New York, NY, November 1934), 18
- "Portraiture", U.S. Camera, William Morrow & Company (New York, NY, 1935 -1936), 83
- Davis Pratt, ed., The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 1975), 22
Exhibition History
- Ben Shahn: A Retrospective, 1898-1969, Jewish Museum, New York, 10/12/1976 - 01/02/1977; University of Georgia, Athens, 01/27/1977 - 03/17/1977; Spertus Museum, Chicago, 04/11/1977 - 05/23/1977; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, 06/23/1977 - 08/11/1977; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 09/05/1977 - 10/24/1977; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 11/17/1977 - 01/15/1978
- Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist, Photograph, Painting and Graphic Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, 12/03/2011 - 01/29/2012; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, 02/11/2012 - 03/25/2012; The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama-shi, 04/08/2012 - 05/20/2012
- 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/02/2021; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2024 - 04/14/2025
Verification Level
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