Object Details
- Creator
- Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
- Subject
- United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 mock-up : various media ; 23 x 18.5
- Summary
- Dates based on finding aid.
Mock-up on artists' board juxtaposes a photograph of a flooded town with hand-lettered text: The hills above this town have been robbed of their protecting forests; resettlement will save this town by turning the wasted cut-over areas back to forest land. - Citation
- Ben Shahn. Ben Shahn mock-up for a government brochure promoting resettlement, 1935 or 1936. Ben Shahn papers, 1879-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- 1935 or 1936
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)18340
- Type
- Artworks
- See more items in
- Ben Shahn papers, 1879-1990, bulk 1933-1970
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- Land settlement--United States
- Natural disasters
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_18340
