Artist: Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969)
Nationality: American
Movement: Social Realism
Media: Painting, Illustration, Photography, Design
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (22)
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Ben Shahn Ohio Magic tempera on composition board 1945
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Ben Shahn Beatitudes Color wood engraving 19th - 20th century
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Ben Shahn Gandhi Black ink on white wove paper mounted on cardboard 1964
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Ben Shahn Second Phoenix Silk screen with water color additions 19th - 20th century
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Ben Shahn Thirteen Poems (Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1956) book with reproductions of drawings 1956
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Ben Shahn Poems/Wilfred Owen, first plate (portrait) in the book Thirteen Poems (Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1956) reproduction of drawing 1956
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Stove in Home of Destitute Ozark Family, Arkansas, Ben Shahn (Lithuania, 1898 - 1969)  (Artist), 1935, Gelatin-silver print
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Benjamin Shahn - Ghandi c. 1964 ink Arkansas Arts Center American
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Ben Shahn - Mask 1958 gouache on paper Hofstra Museum American
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Ben Shahn - Brothers 1946 tempera on paper mou Hirshhorn Museum American
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Ben Shahn - Song 1950 tempera on canvas mo Hirshhorn Museum American
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Ben Shahn - Farmer And His Son c. 1936 tempera on paper mou Hirshhorn Museum American
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Ben Shahn - Renascence 1946 tempera Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn - A Mule and a Plow 1935-36 photo-offset lithogr The Maier Museum of Art American
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Ben Shahn - Years of Dust 1936 photo-offset lithogr The Maier Museum of Art American
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Ben Shahn - Man By The Railroad Track 1935-1936 tempera on paper mou Hirshhorn Museum American
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Ben Shahn USA, 1966 Photograph,
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Ben Shahn - Remember The Wrapper 1945 tempera on paperboar Hirshhorn Museum American
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Ben Shahn - Portrait of Walker Evans 1931 gouache on paper, mo Williams College Museum of Art American
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Ben Shahn - Integration, Supreme Court 1963 tempera on paper mou Des Moines Art Center American
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Ben Shahn - untitled (two figures: black man with a pipe) c. 1935-38 watercolor on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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Ben Shahn - Supreme Court of California: Mooney Series 1932 gouache on paper Hirshhorn Museum American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (15)
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Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission: Ben Shahn: Summer of 1938
Ben Shahn was born in Russia in 1898 in a socialist Jewish family. They fled the czarist regime in ...
Phillips Collection: Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times
Ben Shahn's New York photographs represent his first foray into the medium, laying the foundation for the more public photography he made later for the Resettlement Administration/Farm Security Administration (RA/FSA). ...
Smart Museum of Art: Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times
This major traveling exhibition organized by Harvard University Art Museums will feature over 100 of Shahn's photographs as well as many of his paintings, drawings, mural studies, and related ephemera. His street photog...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
Jewish Museum: Collective Perspectives: New Acquisitions Celebrate the Centennial
Poised at the intersection of art, history, and culture, the fine arts collection of the Museum explores the Jewish experience through the contributions of both Jewish and non-Jewish artists. Among the fine arts highlights in this exhibition are m...
Gallery of Photography: FSA: The Bitter Years of the American Depression
In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Resettlement Administration (R.A.) as part of his 'New Deal' strategy to cope with the Great Depression. The R.A. project was set up to bring financial aid to thousands of rural communities affect...
National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery,Smithsonian Institution: Modern American Realism: Selections from the Sara Roby Foundation Collection
The Sara Roby Foundation was established in 1952 to encourage the creation and public appreciation of the visual arts and continues an active program today. Sara Mary Barnes Roby (1907–86) was born in Pittsburgh to a wealthy industrialist, ...
Memphis Brooks Museum: In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is an honor for the Brooks to be selected as a venue for this important and moving Smithsonian exhibition," said Kaywin Feldman, Director of the Brooks. "We hope that no child in our community will miss this unique opportunity to experience Ki...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection
This survey of over 150 works tracks the history of the medium during the most vital age of American photography, from the invention of the hand-held camera through the age of digitally manipulated photos. It includes rare images, vintage prints a...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
Dedicated to building bridges between cultural understanding and art, Julia "Judy" Norrell has assembled an outstanding collection that addresses the notion of a collective past and the role of memory and activism in finding common ground among di...
Jewish Museum: New York: Capital of Photography
New York: Capital of Photography addresses the fact that many of the practitioners of the quintessentially modern art form of street photography were or are Jewish. These photographers showed an affinity for those on the margins of society, ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
The collection is marked by a passion for color, strong compositional designs, and occasionally eccentric images, with an emphasis upon several favorite artists, among them Joseph Stella, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove, each of w...
Jewish Museum: Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered
The Jewish Museum initially showed three sets of paintings and an edition of prints in the fall of 1980. While Jewish audiences tended to embrace Warhol’s series, several leading art critics dismissed it as crass and exploitative. In the twenty-ei...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Further Artwork and Information:

Ben Shahn Online
Ben Shahn Cosmopolis English edition July 2000
Ben Shahn at Harvard Exhibition Tour Images
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Ben Shahn at Harvard Home Page
Photographs from the FSA and OWI
Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice | PBS
Shahn, Ben on Encyclopedia.com
Yahoo! Directory Muralists > Ben Shahn
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