Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

Prints and Drawings

Ben Shahn
American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Ben Shahn
Title: Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1958
Medium: Screenprint in black and brown on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed center right, in pen and red ink: "Ben Shahn"
Dimensions: Image: 64.5 × 44 cm (25 7/16 × 17 3/8 in.); Sheet, sight: 69 × 50.8 cm (27 3/16 × 20 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Esther Sparks Sprague
Reference Number: 2015.407

Sold by Martin Gordon, Inc., Naples, Fla., to Esther Sparks, July 25, 1989; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 2015.

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