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Though the public generally is unaware of him, Ben Shahn is considered by a majority of critics to be one of America's best living painters. The baffling thing about big Ben is that he has played the field, from near-realism to near-abstraction...
Last week bookstores were peddling a new and thorough biographical study of Shahn by Poet-Critic Selden Rodman (Portrait of the Artist as an American; Harper, $6.50). Rodman got most of his material from the horse's mouth, but could not make Shahn a horse of a definite color. What the book captures is the brilliant shimmer of a man too seldom at a loss. "Shahn," Rodman explains, "is a man of paradoxes...
...Artists Equity Association offered the public a grab-bag art show at the Whitney Museum. The terms were challengingly simple. Admission: $100 a couple and take your pick of more than 500 pieces of donated painting and sculpture-some of them by such top-notchers as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, Isabel Bishop and William Zorach. The only catch: the art was all untitled and signatures were taped over with adhesive...
...Modern Art" was the subject of controversy at Fogg Museum's Open Forum held yesterday afternoon and evening. Artists Robert Motherell and Ben Shahn discussed contemporary painting at the afternoon session...
...Shahn and Motherwell will discuss, respectively, "Some Relationships of Art to Social Philosophy" and "The Rise of Abstract Art", while Schapiro and Larkin are to speak on "Counter Modernism, the Attacks on Modern Painting" and "A Continuing American Tradition...