Ben Shahn

Who

Ben Shahn (1898-1969), American painter, graphic designer and photographer of Lithuanian descent.

Notes

Associated with social realism.

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In museum collections

• Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
  MoMA ↗
• The Riveter (mural study, Bronx, New York central postal station) (1938)
  Smithsonian American Art Museum ↗
• Wheat Field (1958)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1958)
  National Gallery of Art ↗ · MoMA ↗
• Supermarket (1957)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• 4 1/2 Out of Every 5 (1941)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• After Titian (1959)
  Smithsonian American Art Museum ↗
• Alphabet (Greeting Card) (1960)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• Alphabet of Creation (1957)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• Apotheosis
  LACMA ↗
• Balancing Acrobat (1940)
  National Gallery of Art ↗
• Birds over the City (1968)
  National Gallery of Art ↗

See the work

Prints

Books

See also

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