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Shahn Ben (American 1898-1969)
Shahn Ben (American 1898-1969)
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Artist: Shahn Ben (American 1898-1969)
Artist Biography: Birth place: Kovno (now Kaunas), LithuaniaAddresses: Came to U.S. in 1906; Brooklyn, NY/ active in Provincetown, MA, 1925-35Studied: apprenticed as lithographer, 1903-17; NAD, 1919-22; NYU; CCNY; Acad. de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1925, 1927.Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1930, 1932-33; WMAA Birnnial, 1932-67; AIC; PAFA Ann., 1940-64 (gold medal 1956); Corcoran Gal biennials, 1941-63 (8 times, incl. 4th prize, 1961); MoMA, 1947 (retrospective); Fogg MA, 1956 (retrospective); Sao Paulo Biennial, 1954 (prize); Venice Biennial, 1954; Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam, 1961 (retrospective); New Jersey State Mus., Trenton, 1969 (retrospective); Ishibashi Mem. Hall, Kurume, Japsn, 1970 (retrospective); New Haven (CT) Jewish Community Center; Downtown Gal., NY; "NYC WPA Art" at Parsons School Design, 1977; Jewish Mus., 1998 (retrospective)Work: Newark Mus.; WMAA; BMFA; MoMA; Albright-Knox Art Gal., Buffalo; AIC; BMA; Brooklyn Mus.; CI; DIA; MMA; PAFA; Phillips Coll.; St. Louis AM; VMFA. WPA murals: Central Park Casino, 1934; Roosevelt Community Ctr., Hightstown, NJ; Bronx Central Annex Post Office; Jamaica (NY) Post Office; Health & Educ. Bldg., Wash., DC; Riker's Island Penitentiary, NY, 1935 (mural was never completed); Mural mosaic, New Jersey State Mus., Trenton, 1960s; 3,000 photos at Fogg MA, Harvard Univ; other photos at IMP, LOC, & RISD; the SLT (Stephen Lee Taller) Ben Shahn archive is at Fine Arts Lib., Harvard Univ.Sources: WW40; M. Kimmelman, "Trying to Separate Ben Shahn"s Art From His Politics," New York Times (Nov. 13, 1998) p.E35; Susan Chevlowe, Common Man, Mythic Vision (Princeton Univ. Press, 1998); John Morse, ed., Ben Shahn (New York: Praeger, 1972); Frances K. Pohl, Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-54 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989); Baigell, Dictionary; New York City WPA Art, 77 (w/repro.); Witkin & London, 232; Falk, Exh. Record Series.
Title: "When the morning stars"
Medium: charcoal on paper
Date: dated 8.60
Size: 13.25" x 10.5"
signed with dedicace "To joyce w. love"
Condition
good condition

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Shahn Ben (American 1898-1969)

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