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Untitled (copy photograph of Ben Shahn's Rikers Island Penitentiary mural study: prisoners and visitors)
1934-1935
Artists
Walker EvansArtist
Dimensions
image: 18.2 x 23.8 cm (7 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.) mount: 30.6 x 20.6 cm (12 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Ben Shahn, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000. Stephen Lee Taller found this object in the former studio of Ben Shahn. Ben Shahn, Roosevelt, New Jersey, from Walker Evans?, 1935, [death], 1969.
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