Ben Shahn
Family of Arkansas sharecropper

ArtistAmerican, born Lithuania, 1898–1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Family of Arkansas sharecropper
DateOctober 1935
Place depictedArkansas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Mount: 10 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 1/8 in. (26.7 × 34.3 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Malcolm Daniel
Object number2017.465
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby's, November 17-18, 1980, lot 301]; purchased by Anne Wilkes Tucker; given to MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, center right of mount: 60[covered]1 - M4

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