Blind Botanist
Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969
1961
Screenprint on paper
Edition of 100
Impression: 38 × 25 in. (96.5 × 63.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
Art © Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
PR.962.158
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Text: So many, are the links, upon which the true philosophy depends, of which, if one be loose or weak, the whole chain is in danger of being dissolved; it is to begin with the Hands and Eyes, and to proceed on through the memory, to be continued by the reason; nor is it to stop there, but to come to the Hands and Eyes again Robert Hooke Micrographia 1665; signed, in red ink, lower right: Ben Shahn
Exhibition History
Arts Education Services, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 1984.
Provenance
Print Council of America; sold to present collection, 1962.
Catalogue Raisonne
K. McNulty, The Collected Prints of Ben Shahn, Philadelphia, 1967, no. 7.
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