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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Pleiades

1960

Ben Shahn

Associated Names

Ben Shahn

Artist, American, born Russia (now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969

The image shows abstract shapes, geometric lines, gold highlights, colorful squares in blue and purple shades, and black Hebrew script.

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Artwork overview

Medium

hand-colored screenprint with gold leaf
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1964.1.43
Catalogue Raisonné

Prescott 1973, no. 42

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1973

Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1973, no. 42.

Wikidata ID

Q65507695

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