Ben Shahn

Conversations

1958

Two stylized figures face each other while clasping hands, one wearing a colorful mask-like pattern.
Two stylized figures face each other while clasping hands, one wearing a colorful mask-like pattern.
Recto

Not on view

Date
1958

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor and brush and ink on paper mounted on board

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 38 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (98.4 × 64.8 cm) Mount (board): 39 1/2 × 28 × 1/8 in. (100.3 × 71.1 × 0.3 cm)

Accession number
58.21

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

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

API
artworks/1385



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