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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista
Television #2
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Television #2

Artist Ben Shahn (American, born Lithuania, 1898 - 1969)
Date1949
MediumTempera and ink on paper
Dimensions19 1/2 x 15 3/4 in. (49.5 x 40 cm)
framed: 29 3/4 x 25 13/16 in. (75.6 x 65.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number1997.20
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DescriptionView with a web of television wires and antennae atop a building and set against a cloudy sky of blue, pink, and white.
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John Steuart Curry
1932
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Sälämon Bällachäw
early 1950s
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Gloriann Liu
2012; print 2016
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Boardman Robinson
1926
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Ben Hoffman
1936-1943
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Bert Marvin
c. 1930
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Rockwell Kent
1926
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Martin Johnson Heade
1883
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Philip Burnham Hicken
c. 1940
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Sudha Mookerjee
c. 1953