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"It is not the Soviet Union..." from Dag Hammarskjöld [Text]

1962

Artists

Ben ShahnArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink over graphite on off-white tracing paper

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

48.4 x 75.2 cm (19 1/16 x 29 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1989; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

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