Farewell to New York - All That is Beautiful
Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969
1965
Serigraph in colors with hand coloring on wove [Rives] paper
Unspecified edition: 34 known
Sheet: 26 × 38 3/4 in. (66 × 98.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gif of Margaret F. Edwards, in memory of her father, Atlanta architect H. Griffith Edwards, F.A.I.A. F.C.S.I. (1907-1972)
Art © Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
2007.77
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed in black crayon, lower center: Ben Shahn; Inscribed in print in vertical columns from left to right: THE ART OF PHEIDIAS / BUT FOR REMEMBRANCE' SAKE / ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL Inscribed in ballpoint pen on printed corresponding lines on Heath's Gallery label: BS-67-11 / BEN SHAHN / ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL / SILKSCREEN [printed copy on label: HEATH'S GALLERY, 62 PONCE DE LEON AVENUE, N.E., ATLANTA, GA 30308 / TELEPHONE 876-1468 / No. _______ / ARTIST___________ / TITLE ____________ MEDIUM _______________ / PRICE_____________]
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2020
GEOG 29, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.177, no.164.
Provenance
The artist; Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; sold to the donor's father, Atlanta architect H. Griffith Edward, F.A.I.A. F.C.S.I. (1907-1972); bequeathed to Margaret F. Edwards, 1972; given to present collection, 2007.
Catalogue Raisonne
Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co. 1973, fig. 55.
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