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Ben Shahn

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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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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

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York BRUCE SILVERSTEIN New York NIKOLA RUKAJ GALLERY Toronto
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THE BITTER YEARS PHOTOGRAPHY - DOROTHEA LANGE AND WALKER EVANS

19. Oct 2022 29. Apr 2023
The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami
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  • 17. Feb 31. Jan 2021
    Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 Whitney Museum, New York
  • 17. Mar 15. Jun
    Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 09. Jul 25. Sep
    Ben Shahn: From the Collection of Marunuma Art Park Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu .
  • 05. Jun 18. Sep
    America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s The Art Institute Chicago
  • 01. May 27. Sep
    America Is Hard to See Whitney Museum, New York
  • 17. Aug 26. Jan 2014
    American Modern: Hopper to OKeeffe MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 17. May 02. Sep
    New York Photography 1890-1950 Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg '
  • 21. May 18. Sep
    EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • 18. Mar 13. Jun
    Phantasie an die Macht - Politik im Künstlerplakat Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg '
  • 30. Oct 17. Apr 2011
    EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • 28. Sep 11. Dec
    Huckleberry Finn CCA Wattis, San Francisco
  • 28. May 03. Oct
    EXPOSED - Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 Tate Modern, London
  • 19. Dec 14. Mar 2010
    Wo ist der Wind, wenn er nicht weht Kunstverein in Hamburg
  • 01. Oct 28. Nov
    The Platonic Ideal Forum Gallery, New York
  • 26. Sep 17. Jan 2010
    Modern Life. Edward Hopper and His Time Kunsthal Rotterdam
  • 09. May 16. Aug
    Modern Life - Edward Hopper und seine Zeit Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg '
  • 11. Mar 25. Aug
    Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 24. Jan 12. Apr
    Art and Activism in the Twentieth Century Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont
  • 30. Nov 30. Nov
    REFRAMING AMERICAN ART: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
  • 08. May 08. Jul
    Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds Rose Art Museum, Waltham
  • 16. Mar 03. Aug
    WARHOL’S JEWS The Jewish Museum, New York
  • 30. Sep 13. Jan 2008
    1937. Perfektion und Zerstörung Kunsthalle Bielefeld
  • 17. May 14. Jul
    When Art Worlds Collide - The 60´s Woodward Gallery, New York
  • 02. Mar 14. Apr
    AMERICAN STORIES 1930-1970 ArteF, Zürich
  • 27. Jan 20. May
    American Modernism Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young
  • 28. Jan 02. Apr
    Starting at Zero Kettle´s Yard, Cambridge / UK °
  • 04. Dec 26. Feb 2006
    American Moderns 1900-1950 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
  • 02. Oct 13. May 2006
    The Evolution of the Nasher Collection Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
  • 11. Mar 12. Jun
    Leporello Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 10. Dec 28. Mar 2004
    Ce que j´ai vu Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • 01. Jun 02. Sep
    Der kühle Blick - Realismus der zwanziger Jahre Kunsthalle München
  • 10. Apr 06. Oct
    Ben Shahns New York Smart Museum, Chicago
  • 24. Jun 02. Oct
    documenta 6 documenta Kassel
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