During the Great Depression, Ben Shahn—primarily a painter and ... realities there that I had no idea about,” recalled Shahn in a 1965 oral history interview with the Archives of American Art. He ...

Ben Shahn was one of the foremost Social Realist artists of the 1930s. Shahn was born in 1898 in Kovno, Lithuania, the first of five children of a traditional Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a ...

Ben Shahn, one of America's foremost ... the artist will plead the case for communication in art, as against purely formal concern. Shahn Born in Russia When first approached, Shahn had misgivings ...