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RICHARD H. JANSEN (1910-1988)
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RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION / FIELDS ARE ROBBED OF FERTILITY BY
MISUSE. Circa 1935.
24
1
/
4
x36
3
/
4
inches, 61
3
/
4
x93
1
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2
cm.
Condition A- / B+: repaired tears and time-staining in margins and text. Framed.
This image, the second of two Jansen designed, focuses on land utilization, showing a run-down
sharecropper’s shack and ravaged land. Among the other artists who designed posters for the Resettlement
Administration were Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda Bryson Shahn.
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