A tale of two collections Sep 18, 2009
Also key to their collection are several portfolios by American Jewish artist Ben Shahn ... One of my favorites in their collection is The Hand by Ben Shahn. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
BOOK EXCERPT: Dancing in the Dark Aug 30, 2009
Only the pictures of Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, and other photographers for the Farm Security Administration could compete with Steinbecks story and its peerless film version in offering vivid images of marginal lives during the Depression. In this constellation of works that rounded off the decade, Richard Wrights books occupy a special place, for they brought the Depression home to the cities and... (Slate)
Reif Larsen, author of 'T.S. Spivet,' begins local book tour in Brookline May 3, 2009
"The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration" (David R. Godine) by Stu Cohen presents photographs by Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, and others who documented the nation in hard times. Many of these images have been published elsewhere. (Boston Globe)
New Jersey community offers lessons for today's economy Mar 21, 2009
Ben Shahn, the left-leaning social realist painter who was commissioned to paint a mural in the school, liked the community so much that he moved his family there from New York ... She's walking through the cemetery, where Ben Shahn and the other artists are buried up on a rise, and the garment workers rest down the hill. (USA Today -- News)
Noel Martin, inventive museum catalog designer Mar 2, 2009
The other designers were Herbert Bayer, Leo Lionni and Ben Shahn. In addition to his son, of West Chester, Ohio, who is also a graphic designer and illustrator, Mr. Martin leaves his wife of 66 years, Coletta, a painter and illustrator who occasionally collaborated with him; his sister, Mary Lou Todd of Chicago; a daughter, Dana Flores of Mason, Ohio, also a painter and illustrator; and four grandchildren. (Boston Globe)
