Ben Shahn
Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

ArtistAmerican, born Lithuania, 1898–1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas
  • Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas
DateOctober 1935, printed 1976
Place depictedPulaski County, Arkansas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 9/16 × 13 3/8 in. (26.8 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky
Object number76.415
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right in pencil " Ben Shahn / Cotton Pickers / Puluski[sic] Cty Ark / 1935 "
bottom left[upside down] " 23801[underlined] / F33-46280 / p "
verso lower center a stamp[upside down] " Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress "

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