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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

Ben Shahn, “Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco," detail, from The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti series detail (1931–32), gouache on paper on board (all photos Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic) What ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...