Ben Shahn
Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas

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Artist Ben Shahn (American, born Lithuania, 1898–1969)American, 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

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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