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DrawingsAmerican20th century

Blind Botanist

1954

Artists

Ben ShahnArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black tempera, with touches of green gouache[?], on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 98 x 64 cm (38 9/16 x 25 3/16 in.)

Provenance

[Downtown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), 1955, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

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