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Imaginative Artist Ben Shahn, with judicious frugality of line, has portrayed Alec Guinness' anonymity as a man while presenting the mirror image of the actor who lives through the looking glass in his make-believe world of grease paint and spirit...
Yoshiaki Shimizu, who took the honors in painting, is another standby, perhaps the most capable of Harvard's painters until his recent departure. These are among Shimizu's most effective things. Unfortunately, Shimizu's work tends to be eclectic, and he shares with his mentor Ben Shahn an oversophistication which often works against him. Nevertheless, a sensitive spirit and great facility are there, and well deserve the jury's accolades...
...with drawings and prints among which are sixteenth century drawings, a woodcut of Durer, etchings by Jacques Callot, and lithographs by Goya and Daumier. The collection also includes the famous Mlle. Eglantine color lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, works by Renoir and Rouault, and some by Americans such as Ben Shahn...
Last year's Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, Ben Shahn, recently convinced Dean Bundy to appropriate left-over funds of the Norton lectureship for the launching of a long awaited student art publication. The result is Portfolio, whose orange and blue face has begun to appear on newsstands and billboards throughout Cambridge...
Fogg Art Museum is showing the work of artist Ben Shahn, during his year in residence as Charles Eliot Norton Professor...