Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Middle Passage

1935–1936

Dozens of emaciated men crowded together on a ship's deck, looking distressed and cramped.
Dozens of emaciated men crowded together on a ship's deck, looking distressed and cramped.

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Middle Passage, 1935–1936. Lithograph, sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 in. (28.6 × 40.6 cm) Image: 9 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (24.3 × 31.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jake Milgram Wien in honor of the 95th birthday of Bernarda Bryson Shahn 98.97.3. © Estate of Bernarda Bryson Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1935–1936

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 16 in. (28.6 × 40.6 cm) Image: 9 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (24.3 × 31.8 cm)

Accession number
98.97.3

Series
from The Vanishing American Frontier book

Edition
Edition possibly 10

Publication
Printed by Bernarda Bryson Shahn; published by Resettlement Administration

Credit line
Gift of Jake Milgram Wien in honor of the 95th birthday of Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Bernarda Bryson Shahn / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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