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BEN SHAHN (1898–1969)
Destitute, 1935
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962
credited and titled in pencil, variously annotated and numbered in red pencil (verso)
image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.2 x 26.6 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.7 x 28 cm.)

Literature
Exhibition catalogue, The Family of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955, p. 150.
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This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941 presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1962.

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