Object number1995.22.3

Clothes hanging in house at farmland auction, New Carlisle [i.e. Marysville], Ohio

Date1938

Artist Ben Shahn (American, 1898-1969)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (15.9 x 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Sam Lehr (class of 1987)

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper center in pencil: 6642M3; lower right corner in ink: E

MarkingsOn verso, stamped center within a rectangular outline: BEN SHAHN / PHOTOGRAPHER / FARM SECURTIY ADMINISTRATION / formerly from the collection of The Fogg Museum

ProvenanceDeaccessioned from the Fogg Art Museum.
DescriptionBlack and white image of two jackets hanging on a patterned wallpapered wall with the back of a wooden chair partially visible at center.

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