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        "tombstone": "Street Scene in Columbus, Ohio, 1938. Ben Shahn (American, 1898\u20131969). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.2 x 24.2 cm (6 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); paper: 20.6 x 25.3 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1996.359. \u00a9  Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
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        "title": "Street Scene in Columbus, Ohio",
        "creation_date": "1938",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1938,
        "artists_tags": [
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            "male"
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1900-1950",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 16.2 x 24.2 cm (6 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.6 x 25.3 cm (8 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9  Estate of Ben Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY",
        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"August 1939 / Street Scene in Columbus OH\"; \"6583 M[?]\"; in black felt pen: \"B19\"",
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                {
                    "id": 194095,
                    "title": "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007).",
                    "opening_date": "2007-06-24T00:00:00"
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                {
                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); \"Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art\", no exhibition catalogue.",
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        "description": "Active as a photographer in the mid-1930s, Ben Shahn learned photography from Walker Evans with whom he shared a studio in New York in 1929. Between 1935 and 1938, Shahn worked for the Farm Security Administration documenting the life of rural America during the Depression. In a direct and straightforward style, Shahn recorded the farmlands, mining towns, and main streets of America such as in <em>Street Scene in Columbus, Ohio</em>. Using a Leica camera with a right-angle viewfinder, Shahn was able to record his subjects unaware which added a powerful spontaneity to his photographs. The combination of the frontality of the subject matter, the flatness of space, and image text creates a strong graphic quality in the photographs reminiscent of his prints and paintings.",
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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                "birth_year": "1898",
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        "accession_date": "1996-12-02T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:04.889000"
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