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Untitled (copy photograph of Ben Shahn's Rikers Island Penitentiary mural study: prisoners and visitors [2])

1934-1935

Artists

Walker EvansArtist
Classification
Photographs
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Culture
American
Century
20th century
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Department
Department of Photographs

Dimensions

sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Ben Shahn, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000. Stephen Lee Taller found this object in the former studio of Ben Shahn. Ben Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Walker Evans?, 1935, [death], 1969.

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