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Ben Shahn — VisualArtsDB

Ben Shahn

Lietuva · b. 1898 — d. 1969

Painting & Sculpture Drawings & Prints Photography Modernism FSA/Depression Architecture & Design 20th Century

Ben Shahn American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969

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Born 1898 — Died 1969

1910s

Monroe Wheeler

Monroe Wheeler

Homeric Struggle

Homeric Struggle

1920s

Siesta at Djerba

1930s

New York City

I Saw Dimly Relieved from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

Eternal Silence Reigns from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco

+43

1940s

Contemporary American Sculpture

Contemporary American Sculpture

Willis Avenue Bridge

Immigrant Family

Vandenberg, Dewey, and Taft

+32

1950s

Silent Music

Where There is a Book There is No Sword

Grinning Politicians

Grinning Politicians

Monroe Wheeler in Profile

+123

1960s

Au Pêre Tranquille. Set design for the 1927 play "him" by e. e. cummings

The Room. Set design for the 1927 play "him" by e. e. cummings

Blind Botanist

Letters in a Cube

+34

1980s

The Dreyfus Affair: The Ben Shahn Prints

Works

253 artworks

Monroe Wheeler

Monroe Wheeler

, 1918

Homeric Struggle

Homeric Struggle

, 1918

Siesta at Djerba

, 1929

New York City

, 1930

Rachel Weeping from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Every Woman from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

To Plague His Heart from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Behold What Is Greater from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco

, 1931

He Worshipped the Worm from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

She Also Is the Mother from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Every Slave from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

Eternal Silence Reigns from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

She It Was That Stood from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

I Saw Dimly Relieved from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

, 1931

New York City (Two Men in Hats)

New York City (Two Men in Hats)

, 1932

Two Witnesses, Mellie Edeau and Sadie Edeau

, 1932

Scene at Smithland, Kentucky

, 1935

Interior of Ozark School, Arkansas

, 1935

Children of Destitute Mountaineer, Arkansas

, 1935

Rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas

, 1935

Resident of Smithland, KY

, 1935

Sunday, Scotts Run, West Virginia

, 1935

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