LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolor and gouache on paper

Size Notes:

(34.3 x 30.5 cm.), sheet

Markings:

signed 'Ben Shahn' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Basel, Switzerland, International Art Fair, June 19-24, 1974. New York, The Jewish Museum, and elsewhere, Ben Shahn: A Retrospective 1898-1969, October 18, 1976-February 2, 1977. New York, Nardin Galleries, Ben Shahn, 1898-1969, February 27-March 24, 1979, no. 28. Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, Ben Shn ten = Ben Shahn Retrospective, May 9-28, 1991. Sarasota, Florida, Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Art Gallery, February 2003. Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, and elsewhere, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, November 19, 2003-January 18, 2004. Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art, American Modernism from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman, January 8-February 27, 2011.

Literature:

K.W. Prescott, Ben Shahn: A Retrospective 1898-1969, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, p. 49. Nardin Galleries, Ben Shahn, 1898-1969, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1979, n.p., no. 28. K.W. Prescott, Ben Shan ten = Ben Shahn Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Japan, 1991, p. 58, pl. 49, illustrated. Boca Raton Museum of Art, American Modernism: Paintings from the Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman Collection, exhibition catalogue, Boca Raton, Florida, 2003, pp. 56-57, 71, no. 64, illustrated. W.M. Blazier, "American Modernism in the Kauffman Collection," American Art Review, vol. XV, no. 6, December 2003, p. 148, illustrated. "The Birth of Modernism," Pelican Press, May 6, 2004, p. 7B, illustrated. Sarasota Magazine, June 2004, p. 55, illustrated. Sarasota Herald Tribune, May 21, 2004, p. 31. Sarasota Herald Tribune, May 28, 2004, p. 29, illustrated.

Provenance:

The artist. Estate of the above. Mrs. Ben Shahn. F.B. Horowitz Fine Art, Ltd., Hopkins, Minnesota. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1987.