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short biography
Ben Shahn (born 1898 in Kaunas / Lithuania, died 1969 in New York) was a mixed-media artist. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York.
Illustration, graphic design, painting, photography, murals
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collection/s
Cincinnati Art Museum
Crystal Bridges, Bentonville
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA °
Modern, Fort Worth
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Jersey State Museum
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg
The Jewish Museum, New York
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed)
UK Art Museum, Lexington
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown .
Wright Museum of Art, Beloit
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galleries
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17. Feb 31. Jan 2021Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 Whitney Museum, New York
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17. Mar 15. JunLincoln Kirstein’s Modern MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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09. Jul 25. SepBen Shahn: From the Collection of Marunuma Art Park Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu .
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05. Jun 18. SepAmerica after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s The Art Institute Chicago
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01. May 27. SepAmerica Is Hard to See Whitney Museum, New York
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17. Aug 26. Jan 2014American Modern: Hopper to OKeeffe MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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17. May 02. SepNew York Photography 1890-1950 Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg '
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21. May 18. SepEXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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18. Mar 13. JunPhantasie an die Macht - Politik im Künstlerplakat Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg '
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30. Oct 17. Apr 2011EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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28. Sep 11. DecHuckleberry Finn CCA Wattis, San Francisco
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28. May 03. OctEXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Tate Modern, London
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19. Dec 14. Mar 2010Wo ist der Wind, wenn er nicht weht Kunstverein in Hamburg
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01. Oct 28. NovThe Platonic Ideal Forum Gallery, New York
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26. Sep 17. Jan 2010Modern Life. Edward Hopper and His Time Kunsthal Rotterdam
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09. May 16. AugModern Life - Edward Hopper und seine Zeit Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg '
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11. Mar 25. AugStage Pictures: Drawing for Performance MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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24. Jan 12. AprArt and Activism in the Twentieth Century Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont
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30. Nov 30. NovREFRAMING AMERICAN ART: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
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08. May 08. JulPaper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds Rose Art Museum, Waltham
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16. Mar 03. AugWARHOL’S JEWS The Jewish Museum, New York
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30. Sep 13. Jan 20081937. Perfektion und Zerstörung Kunsthalle Bielefeld
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17. May 14. JulWhen Art Worlds Collide - The 60´s Woodward Gallery, New York
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02. Mar 14. AprAMERICAN STORIES 1930-1970 ArteF, Zürich
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27. Jan 20. MayAmerican Modernism Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young
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28. Jan 02. AprStarting at Zero Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge / UK °
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04. Dec 26. Feb 2006American Moderns 1900-1950 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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02. Oct 13. May 2006The Evolution of the Nasher Collection Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
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11. Mar 12. JunLeporello Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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10. Dec 28. Mar 2004Ce que j´ai vu Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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01. Jun 02. SepDer kühle Blick - Realismus der zwanziger Jahre Kunsthalle München
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10. Apr 06. OctBen Shahns New York Smart Museum, Chicago
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24. Jun 02. Octdocumenta 6 documenta Kassel