Box 5

Scope and Contents: Poster reproductive print of 1958 original. Printed for Ben Shahn Retrospective Exhibition Japan. Sun, or flames below Hebrew lettering and above a Menorah, a figure holdings a ram's horn instrument, which appears to rest on two of five heads below it. Multi-colored, with flames or sun in red and blue. Three copies. Two have captions identifying work and exhibition, and Shahn signature. One, on thinner paper, has no caption. 36.4 x 51.4...

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Poster reproductive print of 1960 original. Two people standing, one holding a poster of a man, the other a [wooden staff?], above is filled with white pigeons. Captions identifying artist, work and National Museum Stockholm. Also Swedish text.



70.5 x 49.8 cm

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Poster reproductive print. Placard between a door and a shuttered window. Black and white. Verso note: "Shahn OWI War-time Poster."



39.8 x 55.5 cm

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Poster reproductive print of 1952 original for Ben Shahn Retrospective Exhibition Japan. Sketched outline of seated man, holding an ice cream cone with three scoops. Purple with colored ice cream. Three copies. Two have captions identifying work and exhibition, and Shahn signature. One, on thinner paper, has no caption.



51.5 x 37.8 cm

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Poster reproductive print of 1958 original for Ben Shahn Retrospective Exhibition Japan. Wheat stalks with full grain heads. Three copies. Two, in black and white with color accents, have captions identifying work and exhibition, and Shahn signature. One, with dark red-tinted wheat and colored accents, on thinner paper, has no caption.



36.4 x 51.4 cm

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Print. Portrait drawn in black with red printed name above and Ben Shahn signature below. Identified in list accompanying accrual donation as from a portfolio of reproductions issued by ACLU in 1965, Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee.?] Artist's chop in red lower right.



56.2 x 42.7 cm

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Print. Thicket of black crossed lines, suggesting television antennas. Signature on one of the lines, lower right.



45 x 64.9 cm

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Print. Brown outline drawing of two seated men, one resting his head on his hand. Three copies. One copy has graphite notation on verso: "P238".



37.9 x 30.3 cm

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Print. Outline portrait in black. Man's wrinkled, face with moustache, incomplete cheeks, no ears. Signature lower right. Graphite notes on verso "p 241" and "Z 187".



46 x 30.3 cm

Scope and Contents: Four different prints from the Frederick Douglass Portfolio. Portraits drawn in black with name above and Ben Shahn signature below. Print I: portrait with trimmed beard, name in brown, graphite note on verso "ZZ 127 b p. 97". Print II: portrait with moustache and no beard, name in brown, signed in graphite and numbered 223/250, graphite note on verso "x286 p 98". Print III: portrait with heavy beard, name in brown, graphite note lower...