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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

Every Woman from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

Eternal Silence Reigns from Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow

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

+43

1940s

Contemporary American Sculpture

Contemporary American Sculpture

Willis Avenue Bridge

Vandenberg, Dewey, and Taft

4 1/2 Out of Every 5 Think

+32

1950s

Silent Music

Where There is a Book There is No Sword

Grinning Politicians

Grinning Politicians

Phoenix

+123

1960s

Blind Botanist

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

Letters in a Cube

+34

1980s

The Dreyfus Affair: The Ben Shahn Prints

Works

253 artworks

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

, 1957

Four-armed Figure on Bull (page 91) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Pomegranate Plant (page 83) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Struggle Between Animal and Masked Man (page 75) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Medusa (page 57) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Unknown Animal (page 94) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Turtle (page 12) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Bee (page 45) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Two Primitive Figures with Spears (page 71) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Man with Arrow (page 65) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Triciput (page 1) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Drowning Man (page 61) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Galley with Buildings (page 116) from the illustrated book The Sorrows of Priapus

, 1957

Lute and Molecules

Lute and Molecules

, 1958

Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

, 1958

Lute and Molecule, No. 2

, 1958

Lute and Molecule, No. 1

, 1958

Portrait of Sacco and Vanzetti

, 1958

Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

, 1958

Cat's Cradle

, 1959

Ballets U.S.A

, 1959

Blind Botanist

, 1961

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

, 1961

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

, 1961

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