Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn

United States · 1898 – 1969 · 67 works · Social realism

Period of activity

Artworks (39)

Painting
1938

The Riveter (mural study, Bronx, New York central postal station)

Smithsonian American Art Museum
1927

Girl Standing

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1930

Madame Lucie Dreyfus Sortant de la Prison de Rennes

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1931

[Portrait of Walker Evans]

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1931

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

Whitney Museum of American Art
1933

Demonstration

Fogg Museum
1939

Self-Portrait Among Churchgoers

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
1939

Three Men

Fogg Museum
1941

Resources of America (two panels, mural study, Bronx, New York Central Post Office)

Smithsonian American Art Museum
1943

Girl Skipping Rope

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
1944

The Clinic

Georgia Museum of Art
1944

The Red Stairway

Saint Louis Art Museum
1945

Ohio Magic

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1945

Reconstruction

Whitney Museum of American Art
1945

Death on the Beach

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1946

Nearly Everyone Reads the Bulletin

Philadelphia Museum of Art
1946

Man

Museum of Modern Art
1947

Spring

Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1948

Still Music

The Phillips Collection
1948

Mine Disaster

Art Institute of Chicago
1949

Death of a Miner

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1950

Voting Booths ("The end of the government is the good of mankind...and which is best for mankind, that the people should be always exposed to the boundless will of tyranny, or that the rulers should be sometimes liable t

Smithsonian American Art Museum
1951

Composition for Clarinets and Tin Horn

Detroit Institute of Arts
1953

Bookshop: Hebrew Books, Holy Day Books

Detroit Institute of Arts
39 works