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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