[Pleiades] / Ben Shahn. – Historic Print
![[Pleiades] / Ben Shahn., [1959 or 1960] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b4/b44f3c5e6f13-L.webp)
(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: [Pleiades] / Ben Shahn., preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Pleiades] / Ben Shahn.
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Ben Shahn's serigraph takes its subject from the Pleiades, the star cluster named in God's speech from the whirlwind in Job 38, where God asks, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?" The sheet also carries the Hebrew text of Job 38:31-38, so the scripture and the constellation appear together. Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American painter and printmaker known for socially engaged work and Jewish themes, made the print around 1959 or 1960 in an edition of 75, signed by hand in red paint. It was later included in the 2002 Library of Congress exhibition *The Sweet Uses of Adversity*, which gathered images of the biblical Job.
| Created / published | [1959 or 1960] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : serigraph ; 46 x 62.5 cm. |
| Genre | Screen prints Color 1950-1960. |
| Notes | Edition of 75. Signed in red paint. Hebrew inscription of Job 38:31-38. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 442. Purchase; Pennell fund. Exhibited: The sweet uses of adversity, images of the Biblical Job, 2002. |
| Subjects | Pleiades. Constellations--1950-1960. Hebrew language--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119947 |
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