Mask – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Mask, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A silkscreen print titled *Mask*, made by Ben Shahn in 1959, this work belongs to an edition of 75 and is signed in red paint. Shahn, born in Lithuania in 1898 and raised in Brooklyn, built his reputation on socially charged images of injustice and ordinary life, and he worked in screenprinting to put his designs in more hands than single paintings could reach. The catalog tracings list the subject as masks, a motif that suggests concealment and identity, themes that recur throughout twentieth-century art. The red signature is a useful detail for telling this impression apart from others in the edition.
| Created / published | 1959 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : serigraph. |
| Notes | Serigraph by Ben Shahn, 1898- . Edition of 75. Signed in red paint. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Art. Works; Masks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156128 |
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