The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Sign on side of house in Columbus, Ohio

Sign on side of house in Columbus, Ohio

1938
(American, 1898–1969)
Image: 16.5 x 24.2 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.5 x 25.4 cm (8 1/16 x 10 in.)
© Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Location: not on view

Description

American painter and printmaker Ben Shahn also had a significant career as a photographer in the 1930s surveying the impact of the Great Depression on the American people. In July and August 1938, the Farm Security Administration, a federal agency, commissioned Shahn to cover the harvest in Central Ohio. His photographs constitute an invaluable in-depth portrait of rural and small town life in 1930s Ohio.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.551