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Six Months of Dust / have killed the crops, burnt out the gardens, left famished and dying stock. Resettlement is finding new safe lands for victims of the dust and is turning the dust lands back to grass.

c. 1936

Artists

Ben ShahnArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

sheet: 82.5 x 59.8 cm (32 1/2 x 23 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, July 11, 1995.

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