Branches of Water or Desire
1965
Artist, American, 1898 - 1969
Artwork overview
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Medium
screenprint in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, and donation from Tracy Miller)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 66.04 × 49.53 cm (26 × 19 1/2 in.)
sheet: 66.83 × 52.07 cm (26 5/16 × 20 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1046
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Catalogue Raisonné
Prescott 1973, no. 56
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Downtown Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1966; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1973
Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1973, p. 58, no. 56.
Inscriptions
lower right in red ink: Ben Shahn
Markings
stamped center right in orange: [unknown symbol]
Wikidata ID
Q77012529