Mother and Child
Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969
1959
Watercolor on cream wove paper
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 11 5/8 in. (36.8 × 29.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Daisy V. Shapiro in memory of her son, Richard David Shapiro, Class of 1943
Art © Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
W.962.189
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in red paint, lower right: Ben Shahn
Exhibition History
Cape Cod as an Art Colony, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, April 30-October 16, 1977.
The Richard David Shapiro 1943 Memorial Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1968, no. 14.
Publication History
Cape Cod as an Art Colony, Sandwich, Massachusetts: The Plantation, 1977.
Provenance
Downtown Gallery, New York; sold to Daisy Viertel Shapiro (1890-1984), New York, November 1959; given to present collection, 1962.
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