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RICHARD H. JANSEN (1910-1988) RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION / FIELDS ARE ROBBED OF FERTILITY BY MISUSE. Circa 1935. 24 1/4x36 3/4 inches, 61 3/4x93 1/2 cm. Condition A- / B+: repaired tears and time-staining in margins and text. Framed. This image, the second of two Jansen designed, focuses on land utilization, showing a run-down sharecropper's shack and ravaged land. Among the other artists who designed posters for the Resettlement Administration were Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda Bryson Shahn.
