Ben Shahn

The approximately 172,000 film negatives and transparencies in the Library of Congress's collection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a un

Ben Shahn's presence as an artist through several decades of American life was as pervasive as that of any other painter of his time.Beginning in the thirties, he created bold and powerful paintings o

In the first, most intense years of the Cold War (1947-1954), New Deal liberals often found themselves in great disfavor. Ben Shahn's experience presents something of a paradox, however, since his pai

班尚（Ben Shahn, 1898～1969）為美國二十世紀畫壇上一位風格特異的社會寫實畫家，1898年生於立陶宛，八歲時隨父母親移居美國，定居布魯克林。班尚曾到一家石版畫工坊當學徒，因為家庭貧窮，他半工半讀的修完大學的課程，畢業後，進入國立美術設計學院。1925年至1927年班尚到法國、義大利、西班牙、北非等地旅行，巴黎的近代畫派，尤其是盧奧的藝術，給他的影響甚大。班尚是在左翼激進的氣氛中成長

A lyrically told, exquisitely illustrated biography of influential Jewish artist and activist Ben Shahn "The first thing I can remember," Ben said, "I drew." As an observant child growing up in Lithuania, Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he sees--and, after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers' rights, he develops a keen sense of justice, too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America, Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for what's right. As he grows, he speaks for justice through his art--by disarming classmates who bully him because he's Jewish, by defying his teachers' insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories, by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs. In this moving and timely portrait, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson and illustrator Evan Turk honor an artist, immigrant, and activist whose work still resonates today: a true

In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange’s well-known image Migrant Mot

A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists