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Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969

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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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