Einstein, 1950

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 22.54 × 12.07 cm (8 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)

sheet: 45.4 × 30.48 cm (17 7/8 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud Johns)

Catalogue Raisonné

Prescott 1973, no. 62

Accession Number

2015.19.3481

Artists / Makers

Ben Shahn (artist) American, 1898 - 1969

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Inscription

lower right on stone: Ben Shahn; lower center in graphite: For Ted Nov 1960 - Ben

Provenance

the artist, New York; private collection, 1960; Bud Johns, San Francisco, California, c. 1973; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bud and Fran Moreland Johns
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

2013: Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014

Bibliography

1950: Einstein, Albert. "On the Generalized Theory of Relativity." Scientific American 182, no. 4 (April 1950): p. 17.

1973: Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1973, p. 191, no. 241.