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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

Timeline

Born 1898 — Died 1969

1910s

Homeric Struggle

Homeric Struggle

Monroe Wheeler

Monroe Wheeler

1920s

Siesta at Djerba

1930s

New York City

To Plague His Heart 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

Triple Dip

+123

1960s

Blind Botanist

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

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

Letters in a Cube

+34

1980s

The Dreyfus Affair: The Ben Shahn Prints

Works

253 artworks

Winged Boar (page 105) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Primitive Horses (page 119) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Fat Drunkard Asleep (page 41) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Zoanthus (page 111) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Profile (page 24) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Scientist

, 1957

Cock (page 109) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Grasshopper (page 13) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Sirens (page 33) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Stag (page 95) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Frog Among Flowers (page 79) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Eagle (page 98) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Grazing Horse (page 87) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Two Primitive Figures (page 59) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Woman with Snakes (page 101) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Erinys (page 113) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Young Bull (page 115) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Pomegranate (page 28) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Two Eagles (page 78) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Nude on Partridge (page 44) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Adam and Eve (page 53) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Monkey (page 21) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Swan (page 37) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Nude with Drapery on Shoulder (page 5) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

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