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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3127
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
October 1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Tennessee, Huntingdon
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/302985

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 24.8 cm (7 11/16 x 9 3/4 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] 134 (C); inscribed in graphite on verso, upper left to upper right: a medicine show audience, Huntingdon, Tenn. 1935; inscribed in black crayon on verso, center, upside down: 6166-2; inscribed in red crayon on verso, lower left, upside down: N-15; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower right: Huntingdon, Tenn. 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
P1970.3127
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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