This exhibition features one of the most significant private collections of American regionalist and social realist art created between 1920 and 1970. Spanish artist César Galicia (b. 1957) is ...

During the Great Depression, Ben Shahn—primarily a painter and printmaker—worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration. For five dollars a day plus five cents per mile, he drove ...

Ben Shahn, one of America's foremost painters, will deliver the first of the 1956-57 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures tonight at 8:30 in New Lecture Hall. Three of the series of talks, entitled "Idea ...

His influences included Andy Warhol, the mid-century pop artist, and the illustrations of Ben Shahn, the Jewish artist known for his work in social realism. “I don’t think it’s anything that ...

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 ...