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...last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from Buckminster Fuller to Ben Shahn, who describes her as a "joyous revolutionary...
...Shahn, D.A., painter. Pathos, protest, wit and wisdom shape this lively artist's telling work...
Leonard Bernstein '39, conductor, composer, and instrumentalist, received a Doctor of Music degree. Honorary Doctor of Arts degrees went to Ben Shahn for his painting and graphic art, and to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design...
...Shahn, a Lithuanian-born American painter, is noted for drawing and other graphic techniques. He is best known, however, for his prolific murals in U.S. public buildings. During 1957-58, he gave his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard on the education and responsibilities of artists (published as "The Shape of Content...
...directors and curators.* The son of Samuel Sachs, a founder of the Wall Street firm Goldman, Sachs & Co., the 5-ft.-tall connoisseur started his career as a banker and wore a pearl stickpin. But his purchases were not at all conservative, ranging from Rembrandt to Saul Steinberg, Ben Shahn and Alexander Calder. He bought them all, mainly their graphic works, and used his collection to teach two generations to appreciate...