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Ben Shahn
Born
Benjamin Shahn

(1898-09-12)September 12, 1898
Kaunas, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
DiedMarch 14, 1969(1969-03-14) (aged 70)
New York City, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationCity College of New York
National Academy of Design
Known forPainting, illustration, graphic art, photography, writing
Notable workNicola Sacco & Bartolomeo series and Jersey Homesteads Mural
MovementSocial realism
Spouse(s)Tillie Goldstein (m. 1924; divorced)
Bernarda Bryson (m. 1935)
Children5

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.

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Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views...

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Bernarda Bryson Shahn

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children's books including The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh. The artist Ben Shahn was her "life companion" and they married in 1969, shortly before his...

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Social realism

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School including Edward Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton, Will Barnet, Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Paul Meltsner, Romare Bearden, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer...

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Man at the Crossroads

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around the world in his six-person crew, which also included the artists Ben Shahn and Lucienne Bloch. Rivera's assistants converted his small sketch to...

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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

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Vanzetti is a 1932 painting series by Ben Shahn consisting of 32 gouache paintings of Sacco and Vanzetti . Artist Ben Shahn had always wanted to be alive during...

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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the case and the main character's reaction to it. In the early 1930s, Ben Shahn produced a series of works related to the case, notably The Passion of...

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his students James Duard Marshall and Roger Medearis; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker...

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illustrations of Lithuanian-American Social Realist Ben Shahn were exhibited in Yaizu. Several of Shahn's pieces portrayed the historic 1954 Lucky Dragon...

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Modernism

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political and social commentary dominated the art world. Artists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, George Tooker, John Steuart Curry, Reginald...

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Chris Van Allsburg

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Jumanji series: Jumanji (1981), a Caldecott Medal winner Zathura (2002) Ben's Dream (1982) The Wreck of the Zephyr (1983) The Mysteries of Harris Burdick...

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1930s

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Post Wolcott, Doris Ulmann, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn (as a photographer) among several others were particularly influential...

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Jewish culture

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Heine, Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Chagall, Jacob Epstein, Ben Shahn, Amedeo Modigliani, Franz Kafka, Max Reinhardt (Goldman), Ernst Lubitsch...

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Wendell Berry

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Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three (1964), initiated and illustrated by Ben Shahn, commemorating the death of John F. Kennedy. It begins, We know The winter...

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March 14

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1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892) 1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898) 1973...

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Federal Art Project

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Mary Scheier Carl Schmitt William S. Schwartz: 147  Georgette Seabrooke Ben Shahn William Howard Shuster Mitchell Siporin John French Sloan Joseph Solman...

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Andrew Loomis

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Maxfield Parrish

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Cy Twombly

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Mountain in 1951 and 1952 he studied with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. The poet and rector of the College, Charles Olson...

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Appalachia

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Coal company houses in Jenkins, Kentucky, photographed by Ben Shahn in 1935...

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Bruno Caruso

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De Liberto, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Leonardo Sinisgalli, and painters Ben Shahn, Fabrizio Clerici, Colombotto Rosso and Renzo Vespignani. He also published...

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Lidice massacre

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Poster by Ben Shahn, This is Nazi Brutality, referencing the massacre at Lidice....

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John James Audubon

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James Audubon. John James Audubon, Selected Journals and Other Writings (Ben Forkner, ed.) (Penguin Nature Classics, 1996) ISBN 0-14-024126-4 John James...

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Syd Mead

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Timeline of art

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Hesse, Roberto Longhi, Barnett Newman 1969 in art – Death of Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, first Lyrical Abstraction exhibition...

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