Arkansas Squatter's Home

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Ben Shahn

Title

Arkansas Squatter's Home

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1937

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Unmarked recto; stamped verso, upper right, in blue ink: "RA 6029M /"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite and black ink: "66 Xa1" / Nutrition - Slum background - [?]"; verso, upper left, in graphite: "Arkansas squatter's home"; verso, left center, sideways, in black ink: "4'_10" [arrow pointing up and down spanning height of paper]"; verso, center, in graphite: "Ra 6029-N1-1 / 6'-8" / [arrow under "6'-8"" pointing right"; verso, right center, in graphite: "Same / Size / Neg / only [encircled] [crossed out in red wax pancil]"; stamped verso, lower left, upside-down, in black ink: "PLEASE CREDIT / F. S. A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: SHAHN"; stamped verso, lower right, upside-down, in black ink: "PLEASE CREDIT / F. S. A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: SHAHN"; stamped verso, lower right, in purple ink: "Kindly use the follwoing credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY BY Shahn [underlined]"

Dimensions

Image/paper: 19.2 × 23.5 cm (7 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior gift of Charles Levin

Reference Number

2018.387

Extended information about this artwork

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