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Biographical Sketch, Ben Shahn -- 3 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. Newark Museum Association Jewish Museum, New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Museum of the City of New York Whitney Museum of American Art University of Oklahoma Smith College Museum, Northampton, Mass. Philadelphia Museum of Art California Palace of the Legion of Honor Santa Barbara Museum of Art Springfield Art Museum City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo. Arizona State College University of Illinois The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D. C. Roland P. Murdock Collection, Wichita, Kansas Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio EXHIBITIONS Little Art Gallery, Albright Art School Buffalo (1950) Downtown Gallery, New York City (1952) Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paula (1953-54) Allyn Art Gallery, Southern University of Illinois, Carbondale (1954) Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1954) Downtown Gallery, New York City (1955) American Institute of Graphic Arts (1957) Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1957) Downtown Gallery, New York City (1959 and 1961) HIGHLIGHTS Ben Shahn's works were part of the "Twelve Modern Painters and Sculptors" exhibit by the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, which toured Paris, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Oslo in 1953-54. In 1954, the Museum of Modern Art organized an exhibit of Shahn's paintings as well as those of Willem de Kooning which toured South America. The Museum's retrospective show featuring the art of Shahn opened in Amsterdam in December, 1961, and will tour Europe throughout 1962. Shahn is a member of the Fine Arts faculty of the Famous Artists Schools of Westport, Connecticut, whose unique home study method developed by the School enables Shahn to pass along his painting and drawing techniques to thousands of students instead of only a few.