From Workers to Farmers...THANKS!
Ben Shahn, American (born Russia, now Lithuania), 1898 - 1969
1944
Offset lithograph on paper
Edition of 20,000
Overall: 39 1/2 × 29 7/8 in. (100.3 × 75.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wilbur Hugh Ferry, Class of 1932
Art © Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
PS.956.36.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Poster
Research Area
Poster
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: Ben Shahn; inscribed: "From your hands has flowed / abundant food to win the war. / From ours, abundant tools. / Together, we can produce / a world of plenty for all."
Provenance
Wilbur Hugh Ferry; given to present collection, 1956.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kenneth W. Prescott, The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn, 1973, no.149.
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