BEN SHAHN (1898 1969) Child of Fortuna Family Hammond Louisi

Oct 31 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2684 -

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Sale 2684 - Lot 63

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

BEN SHAHN (1898-1969)
Child of Fortuna Family, Hammond, Louisiana. October 1935.
Silver print, the image measuring 6½x9½ inches (16.5x24.1 cm.), the sheet 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), with Shahn's F.S.A. credit stamp and the Farm Security Administration stamp, the typed title and date, and the RA number in pencil on verso.

Reproduced
Archibald MacLeish, Land of the Free (1938), p. 81 (cropped)
Edward Steichen, The F.S.A Photographers (U.S Camera Annual, 1939), p. 57
F. Jack Hurley, Portrait of a Decade (1972), p. 53 (cropped)
Beverly Brannan & Gilles Mora, FSA: The American Vision (2006), p. 58

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