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Cover Design for "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth" by Henry Nash Smith
1957
Artists
Ben ShahnArtist
Description
Four squares of color at right edge; uppermost one is cut out from another sheet and affixed, remaining three painted on.
Dimensions
25.8 x 22.7 cm (10 3/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Estate of Ben Shahn; to [Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1988; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums 2002.
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