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Rights: © Estate of Ben Shahn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department of Drawings
Stephen Lee Taller Berkeley California 1989; to Dolores Taller gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive Gift of Dolores S. Taller
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