Ben Shahn
Street Scene, Lancaster, Ohio

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

CultureAmerican

Titles

Street Scene, Lancaster, Ohio
Main street, Lancaster, Ohio

DateAugust 1938, printed 1976

Place depictedLancaster, Ohio, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 13 1/2 in. (23 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.7 × 35.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.417

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, Prague, August 1–September 30, 1989.

"After Many Springs: Art in the Midwest in the 1930s," Des Moines Art Center, January 30–May 17, 2009.

"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 " Shahn "
top left reading vertically " 53142[underlined] / F33-6390 / M2 "

verso center reading vertically a stamp " Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress "

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