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Ben Shahn hand signed Lithograph RARE

29X23 framed lithograph from smaller hand signed edition of 200. signed in red brush. this is number 32 from the edition. there is a much larger edition of 750 that is more commonly available,SHAHN, Ben(jamin) 1898-1969
PERSONAL: Born September 12, 1898, in Kaunas, Russia (now U.S.S.R.); immigrated to United States, 1906, naturalized citizen, 1918; died following major surgery, March 14, 1969, in New York, N.Y.; son of Hessel (a carpenter and woodcutter) and Gittel (Lieberman) Shahn; married Tillie Goldstein, 1922 (divorced); married Bernarda Bryson (an artist), 1935; children: (first marriage) Judith, Ezra; (second marriage) Susanna, Jonathan, Abigail. Education:Attended New York University, City College (now City College of the City University of New York), 1919-22, National Academy of Design, 1922, and Art Students League; art study in Europe and North Africa, 1925 and 1927-29.
ADDRESSES: Home-Roosevelt, N.J.
CAREER: Artist. Apprentice to lithographer, 1913; worked intermittently as commercial lithographer, c. 1913-30; associated with New York City Public Works project; fresco assistant to Diego Rivera in New York City, 1933; Federal Relief Administration, Washington, D.C., muralist, 1934; Farm Security Commission, Washington, D.C., artist, designer, and photographer, 1935-38; Office of War information, Washington, D.C., designer of war posters, 1943; chief artist for Congress of industrial Communications political action committee, 1947, University of Colorado summer school. 1950, Black Mountain College and Brooklyn Museum. 1950-51; Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, 1956-57; lecturer at Tate Gallery, London, England. City councilman for Roosevelt, N.J., 1945-48. One-man and group exhibitions of artwork include Downtown Gallery, 1930, Museum of Modern Art, 1947, Arts Club of Chicago, 1951, Detroit institute of Art, 1954, American institute of Graphic Art, 1957, Stedelijk (Amsterdam), 1961, and Nazionale (Rome), 1962; retrospectives include Museum of Modern Art, 1947, institute of Contemporary Art, 1948, and National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), 1970. Commissions include murals for Roosevelt, N.J., community building, 1938-39; Bronx Central Annex Post Office, 1938-39; Jamaica, N.Y., post office, 1939; Social Security Building (now Federal Security Building), Washington, D.C., 1940-42; William E. Grady Vocational High School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1957; and Syracuse University, 1965-66. Works represented in permanent and private collections, including those at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Art institute, Baltimore Museum of Art, Harvard University, Jewish Museum, and Wellesley College.
MEMBER: American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, Artists Equity, Acadamia dell'Arte e del Desegno (Florence, Italy), Academia de Artes y Ciencias de Puerto Rico.
AWARDS, HONORS: Pennell Memorial Medal from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1939 and 1953; art directors medal, 1949 and 1955; Alice McFadden Eyre Medal, 1952; graphics medal, 1953; Brazil award, Sao Paulo Biennial, 1953; U.S. representative, Venice Biennale Exhibition of International Art, 1954; Joseph E. Temple Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, 1956; medal from Harvard University, 1956; gold medal from American institute of Graphic Art, 1958; award, Long island North Shore Art Festival, 1959; copper medal (fourth place), Corcoran Biennial, 1961; and others. Honorary degrees from Princeton University, 1962, Rutgers University, 1964, Hebrew Union College, 1964, and Harvard University, 1967.