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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1970.3594
People
Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled (wheat harvest, central Ohio)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
July 1938-August 1938, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Ohio
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303524

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet; actual: 20.5 x 25.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
image: 16.3 x 24.3 cm (6 7/16 x 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, upper right: 6429 [over] M2; stamped in black ink on verso, upper center: Reproduced from the collections of the Library of Congress; inscribed in graphite on verso, lower left to lower right: Member of threshing crew, Central Ohio. Summer, 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Museum Acquisition
Copyright
© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
P1970.3594
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), 135

Verification Level

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