Description: Artist: BEN SHAHN (American, 1898 - 1969)Title: "Of Light, White Sleeping Women in Childbed" from the Rilke Portfolio: For the Sake of a Single Verse - 1968Medium: Original Lithograph on Richard de Bas handmade Velin d'Arches paperSignature: Signed in the Plate in ink lower right "Ben Shahn"Edition: Limited Edition of 750 impressionsSize: 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (57.15 x 45.09 cm) (sheet) [sheet with full text jacket at 22 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches)Printer: Atelier Moulot, Ltd., New YorkPublisher: Kennedy Graphics, Inc., New YorkReference: Prescott 131Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine ArtAbout the Artist: Born in Kovno, Lithuania to an orthodox Jewish family, Ben Shahn became one of America's leading Social-Realist painters. He settled with his family in Brooklyn, New York, and had an apprenticeship with a lithographer while taking evening classes in drawing. In 1929, he shared a studio with photographer Walker Evans and in 1930 at the Downtown Gallery had his first one-man exhibition. Until 1930, Shahn did lithography work and attended New York University, City College, and the National Academy of Design. He traveled to Europe and North Africa and became increasingly committed to social justice themes going from interest in social ills at large to the plight of individuals. Between 1930 and 1933, he painted his well-known Sacco and Vanzetti and Tom Mooney series, and was a mural assistant to Diego Rivera at Rockefeller Center. He also painted murals for the WPA, worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, and designed World War II posters for the government. He did magazine illustrations including for "Time" and "Seventeen." He executed many stain glass windows, and in 1956, was Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University. After World War II, he renewed his interest in his Jewish heritage and developed a style influenced by Surrealism with Hebraic subjects. In 1998, the Jewish Museum in New York City organized a traveling exhibition of his works that he created between 1936 and 1965. These works with allegorical, mythological and Biblical themes were more personal than his earlier pieces of social realism, and were his reaction to the birth of the state of Israel and nuclear proliferation.
Price: 650 USD
Location: Indio, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Signed, Limited Edition
Width (Inches): @37
Production Technique: Color Lithograph
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Subject: Portrait, Women
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Material: Lithograph
Height (Inches): @23
Print Surface: Velin d'Arches paper
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
Artist: BEN SHAHN (American, 1898 - 1969), Ben Shahn
Year of Production: 1968
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Style: Social Realism
Color: Multi-Color
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Type: Limited Edition Print
