The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Public Auction, Central Ohio

Public Auction, Central Ohio

1938
(American, 1898–1969)
Image: 16.2 x 24.2 cm (6 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.4 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/2016.571