Ben Shahn

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According to Wikipedia, Ben Shahn 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. Biography Shahn was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire, to Jewish parents Joshua Hessel and Gittel Shan. His father was exiled to Siberia for possible revolutionary activities in 1902, at which point Shahn, his mother, and two younger siblings moved to Vilkomir . In 1906, the family immigrated to the United States where they rejoined Hessel, a carpenter, who had fled Siberia and emigrated to the US by way of South Africa. They settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, where two more siblings were born. His younger brother drowned at age 17. Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a lithographer. Shahn's early experiences with lithography and graphic design are apparent in his later prints and paintings which often include the combination of text and image. Shahn's primary medium was egg tempera, popular among social realists.

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Ben Shahn's Published Works

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Published Works

A Treasury of Yiddish stories (1954) (29)
The complete graphic works of Ben Shahn (1973) (6)
The alphabet of creation : an ancient legend from the Zohar (1954) (4)
Kuboyama and the saga of the Lucky Dragon (1965) (4)
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1931) (4)
The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn (1975) (3)
Ben Shahn: His Graphic Art (1963) (2)
How an Artist Looks at Aesthetics (1954) (2)
The collected prints of Ben Shahn (1967) (2)
The Lucky Dragon (1978) (2)
An Artist's Credo (1949) (1)
This Is Nazi Brutality (1943) (1)
Ben Shahn ; Paintings (1963) (1)
Interview: Ben Shahn Talks with Forrest Selvig (1977) (1)
Ben Shahn: The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1968) (1)
Methodist church, Unionville Center, Ohio (1938) (0)
Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas (1935) (0)
School youngsters, Red House, West Virginia (1935) (0)
The Patch, a shanty town at Cassville, Scotts Run, West Virginia (1935) (0)
Watching a football game, Star City, West Virginia (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Spectators at county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Prospective homesteaders, in front of post office at United, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (1935) (0)
Dumping wheat into truck from combine, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Street scene, Worthington, Ohio (1938) (0)
Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Marked Tree, Arkansas, where sharecroppers' union originated (1935) (0)
Scene [shoe shiner] in Natchez, Mississippi (1935) (0)
Group of coal miners, Williamson, West Virginia (1935) (0)
Canning corn in community kitchen. [Dyess Colony, Mississippi County,] Arkansas (1935) (0)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco (1932) (0)
A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, [Arkansas] (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Grandstand at county fair in central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Jeeter Gentry, Elmer Thompson and Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, Asheville, North Carolina (1937) (0)
Furniture factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia (1937) (0)
Williamson, West Virginia. A railroad yard with cars loaded with coal (1935) (0)
Wheat straw being piled by cyclone stacker, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
People at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Abandoned mine, Dobra, West Virginia (1935) (0)
Art as Positive Value (1955) (0)
Public auction in central Ohio (1938) (0)
Hall of Independent Odd Fellows, Circleville (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Scene at Smithland, Kentucky. (1935) (0)
Arkansas squatter's home (0)
Slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania (1937) (0)
Doped singer, "Love oh, love, oh keerless love," Scotts Run, West Virginia. Relief investigator reported a number of dope cases at Scotts Run [Monongalia County] (1935) (0)
Wonder Bar, hot spot of Circleville, Ohio (1938) (0)
Post office, Smithland, Kentucky (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dinner time during wheat harvest, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Public auction in central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Environs of Circleville, Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmers at public auction, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Family of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Stock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (see general caption)] (1938) (0)
ベン・シャーン展 = Ben Shahn exhibition (1970) (0)
Four and a Half Men (1937) (0)
Detail of abandoned house, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Inside Looking Out (1953) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Children of ex-farmer who is now working on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Old fireman in front of city hall, Maynardville, Tennessee (1935) (0)
Homesteads built by FERA. Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (1935) (0)
Wheat stubble, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Ecclesiastes, or, The Preacher (1971) (0)
Coal cars in railroad yard at Williamson, West Virginia (0)
Going back to work after dinner, wheat harvest time, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Scene in Smithland, Kentucky, man, woman, and child (1935) (0)
Hartman Farms, "the farm that Peruna built," central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Hightstown, New Jersey. Steps in the preparation of mortar for fresco painting in the Jersey Homesteads school (1935) (0)
Ben Shahn: a retrospective exhibition (1969) (0)
Adjusting straw stacker or grain separator, Ohio (1938) (0)
Old river boat docked at Memphis, Tennessee (1935) (0)
Stock feed in front of feed store, Route 40, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Picking cotton, Pulaski County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Picking flowers for dinner table, central Ohio during wheat harvest time (1938) (0)
The Cherry tree legend (1967) (0)
Roadside advertising along Route 40, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Child of ex-farmer now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Ohio farm scene, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Spectators at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Scotts Run, mining town, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia (1935) (0)
Hartman Farms, "the farm that Peruna built," (see general caption) (1938) (0)
"At a pea vinery," central Ohio. Loading waste to be taken back to his farm for feeding (1938) (0)
Old barn on Route 40, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Group of coal miners, Jenkins, Kentucky (0)
Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, Asheville, North Carolina (1937) (0)
Rehabilitation client, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Tourist signs, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Rehabilitation clients, Boone County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Relief check, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia (1935) (0)
Reedsville, West Virginia (1935) (0)
Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Ozark mountaineer children at school. Arkansas (0)
Children of rehabilitation client, Maria plantation, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Two members of threshing crew standing by belt which supplies power for separator, central Ohio. One on left is Virgil Thaxton (1938) (0)
Farmpeople at county fair in central Ohio (1938) (0)
Family of a striking miner. Pennsylvania (1935) (0)
The Years of bitterness and pride : Farm Security Administration, FSA photographs, 1935-1943 (1975) (0)
Attendant at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Community canning kitchen. Dyess Colony, Mississippi County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Adjusting straw stocker on grain separator, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia] (1935) (0)
Old barn used for tractor shed, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Wheat harvest. Into the field for sheaves of wheat, Central Ohio (1938) (0)
Aspects of the Art of Paul Klee (1950) (0)
Loading cotton in Natchez, Mississippi (0)
Spectators at public auction, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Attendants at farm machinery display at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Young residents at Amite City, Louisiana (1935) (0)
Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia, walking into town for relief food (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Filling truck with threshed grain, central Ohio (see general caption)] (1938) (0)
Special laborsaving rollers used in moving brick for road repair, Route 40, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee (1935) (0)
Man at auction at Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Vacuum cleaner factory, Arthurdale, West Virginia (1937) (0)
Family of Negro sharecropper, Little Rock, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Steam thresher. These machines move from job to job under their own power, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Young resident of Omar, West Virginia (0)
Signs along Route 40, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
On Route 40, central Ohio moving combine and tractor (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Fiddlin' Bill Henseley, mountain fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina (1937) (0)
Farmer sampling wheat as it comes from separator, Central Ohio (see general caption (1938) (0)
Threshing hands eating dinner, wheat harvest time, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Citizens of Zinc, Arkansas, a deserted mining town (1935) (0)
Street scene in central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Spectators at sideshow, county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmers talking at county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m. ready for day's work, Pulaski County, Arkansas (0)
A deckhand aboard the Queen of Dycusberg, Memphis, Tennessee (1935) (0)
Dinner time during wheat harvest, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dinner during wheat harvest time, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Main and Court Streets, Circleville, Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Workers repairing Route 40, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Kentucky coal miner, Jenkins, Kentucky (1935) (0)
Circus posters, central Ohio, along Route 40 (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Sharecropper's house. Arkansas (1935) (0)
Dinner during wheat harvest time, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Washing up before dinner during wheat harvest, Central Ohio (1938) (0)
Trische family, tenant farmers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (0)
Refreshment stand at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Rack for feeding cattle in central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Corn in crib, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Auction room at Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Hungarian miner, Calumet, Pennsylvania. Worked in the mines for thirty-four years, now sixty-three with no pension and no work (1935) (0)
Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Two African-American youths. West Memphis, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Signs, Route 40, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Spectators at public auction, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Lineup for pony race at county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Cattle in pens. Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Harvest hand on the Virgil Thaxton farm near Mechanicsburg, Ohio (1938) (0)
Buyers and farmers in pens at Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Homeless children, Natchez, Mississippi (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Livestock display, county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Interior of strawberry grower's house, Hammond, Louisiana (1935) (0)
Members of threshing crew, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Arkansas photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph. (1935) (0)
Boy with rope for dumping forkfull of hay on stack, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Farmers at public auction, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Scenes of the northern Shenandoah Valley, including the Resettlement Administration's Shenandoah Homesteads (1941) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Unloading platform at the Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Sideshow, county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Waiting around before dinner during wheat harvest, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Corn harvesters on sale lot, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Ozark mountaineers. Arkansas (1935) (0)
Main street, Lancaster, Ohio (1938) (0)
Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Ozark mountaineer's farm. The soil a bed of rocks. Arkansas (0)
Unemployed trappers, Louisiana (1935) (0)
Hayracks on Route 54, Central Ohio (1938) (0)
Two women walking along street, Natchez, Mississippi (0)
Field hands entering house for dinner during harvest time, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Refreshment stand at county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Members of threshing crew, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Manure spreader and bundle fork, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Farm machinery for public auction, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Illustrated map by children in the school at Arthurdale, West Virginia (1937) (0)
Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Selling tickets to the sideshow, county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Threshing wheat in central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Street scene, Circleville, Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Negro child in front of badly rundown house, Natchez, Mississippi (1935) (0)
Children of sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Case plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: At the county fair, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Washing a prize bull at the dairy barn, Red House, West Virginia (1937) (0)
Just What Is Realism in Art (1950) (0)
Strawberry growers, Hammond, Louisiana (0)
On road to Marked Tree, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Boys by gate, Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Adjusting straw stacker or grain separator, Ohio] (1938) (0)
Cattle in pens at Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association (1938) (0)
Squatter's camp, Route 70, Arkansas (0)
Temple Beth Zion (1967) (0)
Remains of old Gulf States paper mill, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Loading hay from window with hayloader, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
"Business was bad," World War Veterans' homecoming and carnival, London, Ohio (1938) (0)
Models made by children in project study, Arthurdale, West Virginia (1937) (0)
Coal miners, Jenkins, Kentucky (1935) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Moving combine and tractor, central Ohio (see general caption)] (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Men at auction room, Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association] (1938) (0)
Barber shop. New Orleans (1935) (0)
Sizing up hay in hayloft, public auction, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Barn in central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
Sharecroppers, Pulaski County, Arkansas (1935) (0)
Wheat harvest in the field. Feeding the thresher, central Ohio (see general caption) (1938) (0)
[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Farmer hauling wheat to elevator, central Ohio] (1938) (0)
Coal gatherer at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. He receives ten cents per 100 pounds and makes between one and two dollars a day (1937) (0)
Ex-farmer and children, now on W.P.A. (Work Projects Administration), central Ohio (1938) (0)
Louisiana photographs - Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Photograph. (1935) (0)
Before start of weight-pulling contest, county fair, central Ohio (1938) (0)
To be auctioned off, public auction, central Ohio (1938) (0)
Watering horses, wheat harvest time, central Ohio (1938) (0)