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		Ben Shahn (American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969), The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931-32, tempera on canvas, 84 1/2 x 48 inches (214.6 x 121.9 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
		This painting is from a series of 23 gouaches titled collectively "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti." They tell the story of the two immigrant Italian anarchists and their infamous trial and 1927 electrocution for murder and robbery.
		Ben Shahn (American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969), for the Resettlement Administration (RA), Lest We Forget, 1937, gouache and watercolor in bound volume, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, National Archives and Records Administration.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/So.html (2995 words)

	About the Artists - Ben Shahn
		Shahn found this act of God, which for the believers is full of mystical meanings, simply an example of the intolerable injustice of authority.
		Shahn became a journeyman lithographer just about in time for Prohibition: he lettered the labels for "hundreds" of brands of whiskey for the proprietors of bathtubs and speedboats in the liquor business.
		Shahn related the image to a fire in his distant childhood in Russia and to a particularly horrible fire in present America.
	www.elca.org /artwork/ben_shahn.html (2098 words)

	Ben Shahn
		Shahn launched his artistic career with the famous 1932 paintings of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial and thus began a lifelong search to express compassion for the human condition.
		Shahn continued to support himself as a free lance commercial lithographer by receiving commissions for posters, lettering and illustrations until 1930 when he was able to devote himself entirely to his art.
		Shahn produced his first artistic prints in lithographic tusche while employed with the WPA and struggling to establish his career as a painter.
	www.georgekrevskygallery.com /artists/shahn/index.html (544 words)

	Special Exhibitions - Ben Shahn
		Shahn's public recognition and personal style coalesced in 1932 with the exhibition of his renowned series on the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Italian immigrant anarchists.
		Shahn's social views were his legacy from the Jewish radical tradition in Eastern Europe, which evolved, through personal experience, into a profound lifelong commitment to fight against injustice.
		Shahn had emigrated to America from Lithuania as a child in 1906 and settled with his mother, brother, and sister in Brooklyn, where they were joined by his father.
	www.thejewishmuseum.org /site/pages/content/exhibitions/special/shahn/shahn.html (338 words)

	Ben Shahn - Biography
		Ben Shahn was born in Kaunus, Lithuania in 1898.
		Shahn came to prominence in the 1930s as with "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti".
		Shahn has been described as a man of uncompromising beliefs and an artist who spoke to the world.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~am482_04/am_scene/bioshahn.html (407 words)

	Ben Shahn
		Ben's mother, Gittel Lieberman, born in Lithuania in 1872, was descended from a family of peasants, but her father educated himself and became an innkeeper, and later even worked as a schoolteacher.
		Ben was too young to remember the birth of his brother Philip in 1900, but he did recall the birth of his sister Hattie in June 1902, when he was not yet four years old.
		Ben's paternal grandfather, Wolf-Leyb ("Wolf-Lion"), was a huge man, known throughout the village for his enormous strength and for his kindness and warmth.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/g/greenfeld-shahn.html (2004 words)

	Ben Shahn Oral History Interview Conducted by Richard Doud for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, ...
		BEN SHAHN: I was quite a purist about it and when some of the people came in and began to use flash I thought it was immoral.
		BEN SHAHN: He has a kind of a real scar from the FSA because of this...he was the best photographer we had there, no doubt, and he was dropped, you know, for that reason I gave you.
		BEN SHAHN: Well, it isn't necessary for it to get bad at all; but the very fact that people are complaining of...I saw some television show of two million dollar planes being cut by a guillotine like that and they had about five thousand dollars worth of material out of it you know.
	www.aaa.si.edu /collections/oralhistories/transcripts/shahn64.htm (11167 words)

	Ben Shahn >> Hard Times: Arkansas Depression Era Photos
		Ben Shahn was born in Lovno, Lithuania, in 1898.
		Ben Shahn became actively involved with the New Deal as a poster artist and muralist, but he also found time to participate in Stryker's photography project.
		Ben Shahn had come to photography as a means of doing studies for his paintings.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/virtual/hard_times/ben_shahn (235 words)

	The Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, Anarchists, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shahn describes the many images, ideas, & experiences that led to the creation of his painting, "Allegory." He explains his whole relationship with the painting, while also describing in more general terms the artist’s relationship with the public.
		Ben Shahn combined the humanistic concerns of social realism with the personal freedom of abstract expressionism to form a style uniquely his own.
		Shahn’s public recognition & personal style coalesced in 1932 with the exhibition of the renowned series on the trial & execution of Sacco & Vanzetti, the Italian immigrant anarchists.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/saints/StBenShahn.htm (1884 words)

	DAVIDSON GALLERIES - Ben Shahn
		Ben Shahn is noted as one of the greatest American graphic artists of the 20th century.
		Shahn loved to draw and his signature graphic style of economy of line, and bold, composition is easily recognizable.
		Shahn used his skill as a draughtsman and the medium of printmaking to disseminate his feelings and reactions to social and political events, to illustrate his personal interests, and to reflect on his spiritual background.
	www.davidsongalleries.com /artists/shahn/shahn.html (345 words)

	Shahn, Ben - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shahn emigrated to the United States in 1906.
		Shahn's later works are concerned with the loneliness of the city dweller.
		BEN SHAHN, THE FOUR FREEDOMS, AND THE SS ST. LOUIS.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-shahn-b1e.html (434 words)

	Jewishfamily.com \|\| Ben Shahn, the Jewish Artist, Exhibited at Harvard
		Ben Shahn, an important figure in the art of the 20th century, who is especially known for his paintings, mural installation and political posters, is the subject of an exhibition at the Sackler Museum at Harvard University.
		Shahn, in a sense, took advantage of the naivete of the passers by who were unaware that cameras came so small.
		Shahn himself is the outsider in the painting: Myself among the Churchgoers, 1939.
	www.jewishfamily.com /culture/front/ben_shahn.phtml (1777 words)

	Ben Shahn's New York
		The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world I knew through legend rather than experience.
		Shahn learned fresco painting from the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, working as his assistant on the controversial mural Rivera was commissioned to paint in Rockefeller Center (the mural, considered too radical by the Rockefeller family, was later destroyed).
		Shahn toured prisons in the New York area in preparation for the project, and many of the photos he took are on display, along with his plans and sketches.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/03.09/shahn.html (1237 words)

	Ben Shahn (by L. Proyect)
		Ben Shahn was one of the foremost Social Realist artists of the 1930s.
		Shahn was born in 1898 in Kovno, Lithuania, the first of five children of a traditional Orthodox Jewish family.
		Shahn's political and ethnic concerns were knitted together on the occasion of his move to the Jersey Homesteads in 1936.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/shahn.htm (3053 words)

	Ben Shahn Artist With a Conscience
		This small but striking exhibit of twenty-three colored prints by Ben Shahn reflects the power and irony of the work of this important 20th century artist.
		Shahn, who began his career as a lithographer in the early 1900's is well known for his use of stark lines and commanding contrasts.
		While he has often been compared to Paul Klee, Shahn's meticulous attention to detail and his use of art as a social commentary give his work a personality that is all his own.
	www.blair-murrah.org /BenShahn.php (163 words)

	Ben Shahn Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Ben Shahn (1898-1969), American painter, graphic artist, and photographer, was devoted to the figurative tradition.
		From the age of 15 to 18, Shahn was apprenticed to a New York lithographer.
		Shahn's themes were a variety of topical problems--from anti--semitism to unfair labor conditions; he framed them into a continuous wall plane that is subdivided by architectural devices.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/ben-shahn (588 words)

	Ben Shahn Artist With a Conscience (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This small but striking exhibit of twenty-three colored prints by Ben Shahn reflects the power and irony of the work of this important 20th century artist.
		Shahn, who began his career as a lithographer in the early 1900's is well known for his use of stark lines and commanding contrasts.
		While he has often been compared to Paul Klee, Shahn's meticulous attention to detail and his use of art as a social commentary give his work a personality that is all his own.
	blair-murrah.org /BenShahn.php (163 words)

	Ben Shahn - MSN Encarta
		Shahn was born in Kaunas, Russia (now in Lithuania), and arrived in the United States in 1906.
		Shahn's work is notable for its strong, flat colors and clear, incisive lines.
		He first gained recognition with The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1931-1932, Whitney Museum, New York City), a series of two large panels and 23 small gouaches based on the controversial trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s (see Sacco-Vanzetti Case).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564148 (183 words)

	Ben Shahn Cosmopolis English edition July 2000
		Ben Shahn was born in Russia in 1898 in a socialist Jewish family.
		Shahn abandoned his interest in European modernism in favor of social-realist art that addressed the issues dominating public debate.
		From 1935 to 1938, Shahn, a vocal proponent of Roosevelt's New Deal policies, produced thousands of documentary photographs of the rural southern and midwestern USA for the Historical Section of the Resettlement Administration/ Farm Security Administration.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo8/benshahn.htm (691 words)

	Ben Shahn Summary
		Shahn began his path to becoming an artist in New York, where he was first trained as a typographer.
		Shahn's early experiences with typography and graphic design is apparent in his later prints and paintings which often include the combination of text and image.
		Shahn left the FSA in 1938, and that same year he and his wife Bernarda moved to the new town of Jersey Homesteads (now Roosevelt, New Jersey).
	www.bookrags.com /Ben_Shahn (899 words)

	3. Ben Shahn
		And in some way, Ben Shahn was involved, whether it was as a judge or he had some sort of influence deciding whether his [Warhol's] work would be used or not.
		One reason that Shahn was more expensive than Warhol may have been because he was considerably older and had already earned an impressive array of artistic credentials by the early 1950s.
		Shahn and his employer at the time, CBS, were openly criticized in the Juy 25, 1952 issue of the Counterattack newsletter - a reactionary "hate sheet" which was founded in 1947 by three ex-FBI agents in order to expose the names of Communist sympathesizers.
	www.warholstars.org /warhol1/3benshahn.html (2450 words)

	Press: Ben Shahn's "Hallelujah Suite" book
		Berger is exhibiting works of two wonderful Jewish artists, the late Ben Shahn, one of the 20th Century's leading social realists, and local artist Leonard Leibowitz, artist, etcher and print-maker extraordinaire.
		It is a limited edition book of 24 lithographs by Shahn illustrating the 150th Psalm, a "praise Psalm" known for its unequaled prose extolling G-d.
		Shahn drew on his early education, when as a child he studied passages from the Bible.
	www.mbergerart.com /shaun/press.htm (348 words)

	Ben Shahn: Picture Maker - Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times - Common Man Mythic Vision: The ...
		Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times, which is the catalogue for a 2000-2001 touring exhibition organized by Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, focuses on Shahn's little known photographic work of the 1930s of New York City and its relationship to his paintings.
		To the degree that Shahn is celebrated at all, is for his early series: The Passion of Saccho and Vanzetti (1931-32); his work after World War II is largely ignored.
		Shahn derived his distinctive style from the pattern and color of Paul Klee, and the nervous contour line of Pablo Picasso.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_1_60/ai_77374290 (976 words)

	Ben Shahn's New York - The Photography of Modern Times
		The photograph’s Ben Shahn’s took in New York in the 1930s are not typical images of skyscrapers and expansive canyons of avenues.
		Shahn caught this irony as he photographed men and women gazing wistfully into display windows, catching their reflections and the goods they were coveting, when they thought no one was looking.
		Born in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1898, Shahn was part of the mass of eastern European immigrants to arrive on American shores at the beginning of the century.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/1999-09/ben_shahn.html (2517 words)

	Photographs from the FSA and OWI
		Shahn recalled that the first lesson was delivered as Evans dashed out the door on his way to a photographic assignment and consisted of the shouted instruction, "f9 for the bright side of the street, f4.5 for the shady side!"
		Shahn may have used his right-angle viewfinder when he photographed this series; if so, the fact that the photographer was facing in another direction did not keep the nursing mother from fixing him with a penetrating stare.
		Shahn set off with neither a specific photographic assignment nor a social science lesson from Stryker, who typically wanted his photographers to be well-informed about their subject matter and the agency's policies and activities.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fsahtml/fachap01.html (1596 words)

	Ben Shahn (1898 - 1969) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Ben Shahn - Renascence 1946 tempera Fred Jones Jr.
		Ben Shahn - untitled (two figures: fl man with a pipe) c.
		Ben Shahn's New York photographs represent his first foray into the medium, laying the foundation for the more public photography he made later for the Resettlement Administration/Farm Security Administration (RA/FSA).
	wwar.com /masters/s/shahn-ben.html (915 words)

	Ben Shahn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ben Shahn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Shahn, Ben (1898-1969), American artist whose work addresses social issues.
		Shahn was born in Kaunas, Russia (now in Lithuania), and arrived in the...
	encarta.msn.com /Ben_Shahn.html (99 words)

	Ben Shahn's NY -- Rikers Mural: NYCHS Excerpts III
		Shahn's utopian vision of penal reform begins on the west wall portrait of Osborne, a former Sing Sing warden widely considered the father of 20th century progressive prison-reform.
		Shahn depicts Osborne in his tiny cell, sitting on a wooden stool and contemplating the reformist vision of prison life he would help unfold.
		Shahn’s didactic mural in support of progressive penal reform programs was to be painted on the walls of a cavernous hallway that led to the prison’s chapels.
	www.correctionhistory.org /benshahn/benshahn_rikers3.html (1273 words)

	"Ben Shahn's New York" ArtForum - Find Articles
		The recent Harvard survey, which focuses on Shahn's New York output of the '30s, when Shahn hobnobbed with Evans and learned photography from him, remedies that situation by emphasizing his work with the camera and by reuniting the photographs and the paintings.
		Shahn's photographic work has neither the literary nor the artistic pedigree of Evans's, which Lincoln Kirstein placed in an eminent line of American literature running from Walt Whitman to T.S. Eliot.
		Shahn often prepared himself to photograph other things by photographing his own children--so the play of kids on the street was the hinge between the private family snap and an outward-directed, social practice in photography.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_38/ai_65071281 (529 words)

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