As the second exhibit in its new Ground Level Arts Lab, Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership presents more than 30 works by artist and activist Ben Shahn, who exposed injustice and ...

LAMBERTVILLE — An auction of the works and property of social realist painter Ben Shahn, who died 41 years ago, and his wife, Bernarda, dead six years, brought their heirs more than $800,000 yesterday ...

(RNS) Picture a secular Jewish socialist on fire for justice for the poor, the working class, and the immigrant. Now, cross off Bernie Sanders. Refocus on Ben Shahn, the 20th-century American painter, ...

It has been 41 years since the death of celebrated social realist painter Ben Shahn, and six years since his wife, Bernarda, an illustrator and painter, died in her sleep at their longtime home in ...

As eloquent as Ben Shahn has been in the fall Norton lectures, his pictures speak with a bolder and more significant voice. The Fogg Museum has done well to complement the artist's stay here with an ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Long before Shepard Fairey created the Obama ‘Hope’ poster, Ben Shahn ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1304, Whitney edition): This little-known print by Andy Warhol is now on view in the Whitney Museum’s giant re-do, at the foot of the High Line in Manhattan. Warhol made it in 1972, as ...

Allegory , a 1948 painting by Ben Shahn, was acquired in 1969 by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from William “Bill” Bomar Jr. in memory of Jewel Bomar and A.C. Phillips. The painting emerged from ...

Bernarda Bryson Shahn, a painter and illustrator who also worked with her artist husband, Ben Shahn, on one of his most important public murals of the 1930s, has died. She was 101. Shahn died Sunday ...

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 painter, photographer, and ...