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Starving Children

1950

Artists

Ben ShahnArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink on heavy off-white machine-made wove paper

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29.7 x 39.7 cm (11 11/16 x 15 5/8 in.)

Provenance

[Artspace, Berkeley, California], sold; to Stephen Lee Taller, Berkeley, California, 1986; to Dolores Taller, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.

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