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Biographical Sketch, Ben Shahn -- 2 Monograph in Penguin Modern Painters, London and New York. Retrospective exhibition of 16 paintings, Mayor Gallery, London, 1947 Retrospective exhibition of paintings, drawings, posters, illustrations and photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, Sept. 30, 1947 Jan.4, 148 AWARDS AND HONORS Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1948 "Ten Best Painters" LOOK Magazine Poll, February, 1948 Awarded mural commissions at Community Building, Roosevelt, New Jersey, 1937 Bronx Post Office, with wife, Bernarda Bryson, 1938 Jamaica, Long Island Post Office, 1939 Social Security Building, Washington, D.C., 1941 PUBLICATIONS "Ben Shahn" by James Thrall Soby, Penguin, 1947 Reproduction in Hound and Horn, 1933 Magazine of Art, 1928 and 1944, March 1946, October 1946 Creative Art, June 1932 Art News, November 1944, July 1945, October 1947 Art News Annual, 1947, May 1949 Fortune, December 1945, May 1945, November 1946, August 1947, September 1947, January 1951 Omnibook, March 1948 Image, Autumn 1949 Look, June 1950 Illustrative drawings and paintings for Harpers Magazine, Town and Country, Charm, Seventeen and others "Ben Shahn" biographical study by Selden Rodman, Harpers, 1951 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. University of Michigan University of Georgia Alabama Polytechnic Institute Baltimore Museum of Art Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, Ill. Art Institute of Chicago Container Corporation of America, Chicago Ill. Detroit Institute of Arts Fort Wayne Art Museum Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Wadsworth Atheneum, Harford, Conn. University of Nebraska Milwaukee Art Institute