New York / France, Russian Federation. 1881 - 1961
Cubist, futurist and fauvist painting-landscape, figure and still life
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1898 Kovno, Lithuania - 1969 New York City. Known for: Social-realist painting, illustration, lithography, photography.
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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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. Later the artist recollected: “The first thing I can remember I drew.” He copied Biblical texts and developed a keen interest in... Read full biography
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New York. 1897 - 1977
Genre-satire, religious painting, illustration
New York. 1899 - 1987
Social realist figure and genre painting, lithography, teaching
New York / Italy, France. 1877 - 1946
Modernist figure, landscape and still life painting
New York, Vermont. 1898 - 1954
Illustration, urban realistic painting-figure and genre
New York, California, Maine. 1887 - 1966
Abstract sculpture, modernist landscape and figure painting
New York, Ohio. 1893 - 1967
Landscape-structure and modernist botanic painting
New York, New Mexico, New Hampshire. 1871 - 1951
Social realist painting, illustration, teaching
New York, Virginia. 1903 - 1988
African-American figure and genre painting
New York / France. 1868 - 1932
Paintings-figure, still life, landscape
New York, Connecticut. 1885 - 1965
Abstract sea-landscape and nude figure painting
New York, Pennsylvania. 1876 - 1953
Urban genre painting, illustration, mural, scenic design
Massachusetts, New York. 1922 - 2000
Sculpture, painting, illustration, writing, printmaking
New York, California / Italy. 1862 - 1928
Painting-landscape-ethereal female figures
New York, Ohio. 1902 - 1988
City genre, street scenes and figure painting, graphic design
New York / Russian Federation. 1878 - 1965
Modernist figure-genre, town-landscape painting, drawing
New York, Maine / France. 1870 - 1953
Painting-modernist landscape-coastal, etching
New York, Massachusetts. 1915 - 2010
Mod genre, social satire, caricature
New York. 1892 - 1964
Abstraction, mod-real imagery
New York, Ohio. 1882 - 1925
Genre, portrait, and street-landscape painting
Pennsylvania, New York. 1883 - 1965
Precisionist painting-architecture, landscape, interiors
New York, California. 1877 - 1949
Clown figure and portrait painting, cartoons, some sculptural work
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting
New York, California / Japan. 1889 - 1953
Modernist figure, genre, still life and landscape painting
New York. 1880 - 1946
Abstract botanic landscape painting
New York. 1866 - 1933
Urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
Maine. 1877 - 1943
Modernist sea-land imagery, mountain, still-life and portrait painting
New York. 1899 - 1974
Figure-dancers, social realism
New York, Massachusetts. 1882 - 1935
Sculpture-caricature nude, sketches
New York. 1910 - 1981
Social realism painting, modernist figure-genre view, military scenes
New York, Massachusetts. 1882 - 1967
Town-landscape, genre and figure painting
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut / France. 1870 - 1938
Genre, figure, landscape and still-life painting