MADRID — In 1951, the American artist Ben Shahn proclaimed in a speech at the University of Buffalo: “It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, ...

Caught between his political and aesthetic commitments, the painter, photographer, and illustrator has suffered the fate of misapprehension. When the last major Ben Shahn retrospective opened almost ...

Ben Shahn, “Harvesting Wheat [study for The Meaning of Social Security mural, Washington, D.C.]” (1941), buon fresco on wallboard, (courtesy D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York) This spring, the ...

Then, as now, voting matters: Ben Shahn’s 1944 lithograph was looking forward to a strong post-World War II labor movement. Collection of Michael Berg, Fairfax ...

Murals, of course, are created for the public. They’re for anyone who happens to pass by — to absorb, explore, think, and learn from what they engage with. But for the last 10 years, “Resources of ...

This profile of Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn, who emigrated from Lithuania to America in 1906, highlights the threads of compassion and social justice that ran through his work. Shahn learned ...

NEW YORK — For its signature image, the organizers of “Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity” didn’t choose Shahn’s most famous work. This might seem perverse. Actually, when taking into consideration the ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Ben Shahn’s total sales are going up, and if so, ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Ben Shahn’s total sales are going up, and if so, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of painter, printmaker, and illustrator Bernarda Bryson Shahn measure 14.6 linear feet and 5.88 GB and date from 1872 to 2004, with the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The collection is arranged as 12 ...