• Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views...
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  • children's books including The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh. The artist Ben Shahn was her "life companion" and they married in 1969, shortly before his...
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    Vanzetti is a 1932 painting series by Ben Shahn consisting of 32 gouache paintings of Sacco and Vanzetti . Artist Ben Shahn had always wanted to be alive during...
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    around the world in his six-person crew, which also included the artists Ben Shahn and Lucienne Bloch. Rivera's assistants converted his small sketch to...
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    was further turmoil in the OWI from a faction supporting work by Ben Shahn; Shahn's work was not used in propaganda because it lacked general appeal....
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    the case and the main character's reaction to it. In the early 1930s, Ben Shahn produced a series of works related to the case, notably The Passion of...
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    photographer Ben Shahn (1898–1969), Social realist painter Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903–2004), painter and wife of Ben Shahn Jonathan Shahn (1938–2021)...
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    School including Edward Hopper, and Thomas Hart Benton, Will Barnet, Ben Shahn, Jacob Lawrence, Paul Meltsner, Romare Bearden, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer...
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    series of New Deal-era murals in fresco created in 1939 by Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn for the Treasury Department Art Project's Section of Fine...
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    his students James Duard Marshall and Roger Medearis; expressionists Ben Shahn, Mitchell Siporin and John Langley Howard, magic realists George Tooker...
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  • illustrations of Lithuanian-American Social Realist Ben Shahn were exhibited in Yaizu. Several of Shahn's pieces portrayed the historic 1954 Lucky Dragon...
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    Jumanji series: Jumanji (1981), a Caldecott Medal winner Zathura (2002) Ben's Dream (1982) The Wreck of the Zephyr (1983) The Mysteries of Harris Burdick...
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    Heine, Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Chagall, Jacob Epstein, Ben Shahn, Amedeo Modigliani, Franz Kafka, Max Reinhardt (Goldman), Ernst Lubitsch...
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    Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three (1964), initiated and illustrated by Ben Shahn, commemorating the death of John F. Kennedy. It begins, We know The winter...
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    and social commentary dominated the art world in the USA. Artists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, George Tooker, John Steuart Curry, Reginald...
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    Post, retired and was replaced by Wesley Winans Stout (1937–1942) and then Ben Hibbs (1942–1962), both of whom rarely commissioned Leyendecker to illustrate...
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    negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable," photographer and artist Ben Shahn has been quoted saying. Stryker also made sure that mainstream publications...
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    Thomas Nast Coles Phillips 1994 Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn 1995 James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover...
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    Mary Scheier Carl Schmitt William S. Schwartz: 147  Georgette Seabrooke Ben Shahn William Howard Shuster Mitchell Siporin John French Sloan Joseph Solman...
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    January 2020 at the Wayback Machine Official Website of Geudertheim with page about Général Picquart (in French). 1968 portrait of Picquart by Ben Shahn...
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    political and social commentary dominated the art world. Artists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, George Tooker, John Steuart Curry, Reginald...
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    Coal company houses in Jenkins, Kentucky, photographed by Ben Shahn in 1935...
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    Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan, Morris...
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    Thomas Nast Coles Phillips 1994 Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn 1995 James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover...
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    Thomas Nast Coles Phillips 1994 Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn 1995 James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover...
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    Thomas Nast Coles Phillips 1994 Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn 1995 James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover...
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    Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott), but Delano’s work continually...
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  • Thomas Nast Coles Phillips 1994 Harry Anderson Elizabeth Shippen Green Ben Shahn 1995 James Avati McClelland Barclay Joseph Clement Coll Frank Schoonover...
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  • Mountain in 1951 and 1952 he studied with Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell and Ben Shahn, and met John Cage. The poet and rector of the College, Charles Olson...
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  • 1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892) 1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898) 1973...
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