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Frederick Douglass Portfolio

Ben Shahn and Museum of African Art, Frederick Douglass Institute

Frederick Douglass Portfolio

1964

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Frederick Douglass Portfolio

1964

Physical Qualities Photoscreenprint, Sheet: 563 x 426 mm. (22 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Ryda and Robert H. Levi Collection, Gift under the Will of Ryda H. Levi
Object Number 2009.252.4
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2009; Ryda and Robert H. Levi, Baltimore
Kenneth W. Prescott, "The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn," NY: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973, no. 100.

Stauffer, John, Zoe Trodd, and Celeste-Maire Bernier. "Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American," New York: Liveright Publishing Coorporation, 2015, p. 118.

Inscribed: lower right in screen: "Ben Shahn"; lower left in brown crayon: "Ben Shahn 60/250"

Artist

Ben Shahn

1897–1968

American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969
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Publisher

Museum of African Art, Frederick Douglass Institute

2000–2000

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