Ben Shahn
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 56 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 12,1898 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Kaunas |
| Lithuania | |
| Date of died | March 14,1969 |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Artworks | Miners' Wives |
| Death of a Miner | |
| Four Piece Orchestra | |
| On view | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Amon Carter Museum of American Art | |
| The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | |
| Known for | Painting |
| Illustration | |
| Graphic arts | |
| Photography | |
| Writing | |
| graphic art | |
| Children | Jonathan Shahn |
| Parents | Gittel Shahn |
| Joshua Hessel Shahn | |
| Period by artworks | Social realism |
| Modern art | |
| Periods | Modern art |
| Social realism | |
| Works | Miners' Wives |
| Death of a Miner | |
| The Red Stairway | |
| The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti | |
| After Titian | |
| Current partner | Bernarda Bryson Shahn |
| Education | New York University |
| The City College of New York | |
| Influences | Pablo Picasso |
| Walker Evans | |
| Diego Rivera | |
| Henri Matisse | |
| Paul Klee | |
| Georges Rouault | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 680397 |
Ben Shahn Life story
Ben Shahn was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.