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BEN SHAHN
from THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY
32 East 51 Street
New York 22, N.Y.

BORN in Russia, 1898. Came to the United States in 1906. Attended New York University and City College of New York, majoring in biology, until 1922. Studied at the National Academy of Design. Travelled in Europe and North Africa, 1925-29. Photographer and designer for Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938. Taught at Boston Museum Summer School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1947. Resides in Roosevelt, New Jersey, where he is a councilman.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS: The Downtown Gallery, 1930, 1932 (Sacco-Vanzetti Series); 1933 (Mooney Series); 1944; Museum of Modern Art (and circuit) 1947; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1948; Arts Council of Great Britain (London and Circuit) 1947.

PUBLICATIONS; "Ben Shahn" by James Thrall Soby, Penguin Press, 1947; Feature articles and reproductions, Hound and Horn, 1933; Magazine of Art, 1938, May 1944, March 1946, October, 1946; Creative Art, June 1932; Art News, November 15, 1944, July 1, 1945, October, 1947, Annual, 1947; FORTUNE, December 1945, May, 1945, November, 1946, August 1947, '48 January, 1948; Omnibook, March 1948; Seventeen, August, 1948. Drawings for various issues of Harper's Magazine and the New Republic.

AWARDS: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1939; "Ten Best Painters", LOOK Magazine Poll, February, 1948.

Murals at Community Building, Roosevelt, N.J. 1937; Bronx Post Office (with Bernarda Bryson) 1938; Jamaica,L.I. Post Office, 1939; Social Security Building, Washington D.C. 1941.

MUSEUM REPRESENTATIONS: Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Newark Museum, Wadswoth Atheneum; Walker Art Center, City Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Institute; Phillips Memorial Gallery; Albright Art Gallery; Smith College Museum; University of Georgia; University of Nebraska; Container Corporation of American; Pepsi-Cola Company; Alabama Polytechnic Institute; University of Oklahoma; Santa Barbara Museum; Art Institute of Chicago;