Ben Shahn ART FOR SALE

1898 Kovno, Lithuania - 1969 New York City. Known for: Social-realist painting, illustration, lithography, photography.

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BENJAMIN SHAHN (1898 - 1969) . Large eyes and big heads dominate Ben Shahn’s insightful paintings, prints, drawings, and murals. Often the narrative is sardonic, while at other times humorous, but always intuitive and compassionate about humankind. Throughout his life he was politically aware, often selecting current topics, many of which were controversial. From his mid-career onwards, he was a figurative artist with a distinctive style at a time when abstraction was all the rage. Shahn was born in Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno), Lithuania, in 1898, when it was part of the Russian Empire. His father, a woodworker, was banished to Siberia for demanding workers’ rights, and in 1906 his family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York.... Read full biography

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Stronger than Steel

Type:Painting

Year:1937

Size:38.00" x 28.25"

Medium:Gouache

Signed:Unsigned

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Related poster maquettes are in the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. There is no record of these posters being made. There are steel worker posters in the 1940s when Shahn was chief artist for the newly created Political Action Committee (PAC) of CIO, a federation of labor unions.

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