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Died. Ben Shahn, 70, U.S. portraitist, poster maker, muralist and artistic polemicist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "Is there nothing to weep, about in this world any more?" the shaggy-bearded artist once asked. For him, the answer was always yes. Son of a Russian-born immigrant, Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, and his proletarian vision was forged in the class-consciousness of the Depression. He employed elements of both Cubism and Surrealism in his own spare variant of social realism. In 1932 he won fame portraying the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Thereafter...
...swinging contemporary print exhibition opens Monday, March 10, at the Business School's Baker Library. The exhibition features the first gallery showing of Le Corbusier and includes the works of Ben Shahn, Tsurutani, and Micossi. Everyone's invited...
Artist Ben Shahn, 70, who drew post ers for F.D.R.'s 1944 campaign, did the same for Henry A. Wallace in 1948 and this year produced the McCarthy peace poster, plans to sit the election out. "I don't have a candidate," says Shahn. "I feel disenfranchised." There are temptations, though. "I'm thinking of doing a painting called The Happiness Boys, showing Humphrey and Muskie dancing in straw hats-going offstage...
...days when Toulouse-Lautrec limned Jane Avril. Promoters too often preferred to slap uninspired or badly lettered placards on walls and fences. But in the past six years, U.S. art lovers have become accustomed to seeing the works of Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner and Ben Shahn on posters boosting concerts, festivals and even the presidential campaign. Many of the best were inspired by a Connecticut grandmother and art collector named Vera List...
...ardent Black Power advocate, is a man with fire in his belly; but he chooses to channel it into art rather than arson. He says art can be as effective as destruction in bringing about social change, thereby allying himself with such potent practitioners as Orozco, Kollwitz, Grosz, and Shahn...