And Mine Eyes a Fountain of Tears
Artist
Ben Shahn
(American, Lithuanian-born, 1898 - 1969)
Date1965
PeriodContemporary
Place MadeUSA, North America
MediumScreen print with brown crayon on rice paper
DimensionsFramed: 65 x 61 x 3 cm (25 9/16 x 24 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Micheal Berg, 2018
Object number2021.4.40
On View
Not on viewDescriptionside view of a woman (?) wearing a scarf on her head. She is looking downward, as if in sorrow.
NotesGift of Michael Berg, 2018; numbered in 2021; Prescott p.62 for finished print; Treasures of Lisanby
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