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 ...

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 ...

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 ...