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June, 1961

THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY
32 East 51st Street
New York 22, N.Y.

BEN SHAHN

BORN Russia, 1898. Came to the United States in 1906. Attended New York University and City College of New York 1919-22, majoring in biology. Studied at National Academy of Design 1922. Traveled in Europe and North Africa, 1925, 1927, 1929. In 1958 he designed sets for Ballets: USA, for the Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, and in 1960 he visited Japan. Photographer and designer for Farm Security Administration, 1935-38. Designed posters for Office of War Information, 1942, and for C.I.O., 1944-46. Permanent residence in Roosevelt, N.J., where he is a councilman.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, VISITING PROFESSOR, LECTURER: Boston Museum Summer School, 1950; Black Mountain Summer School, No. Carolina, 1951; Brooklyn Museum, 1950-51; Tate Gallery, London, 1951; Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 1955: Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University, 1956-7, etc.

AWARDS: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1939, Eyre Medal in 1952 and Temple Gold Medal, 1956; LOOK Poll Winner, 1948; Award, International Exhibition, Museum of Sao Paulo, 1953; Venice Biennale, 1954; Institute Medal for 1958, American Institute of Graphic Art; Annual Award, North Shore Art Festival, Long Island, 1959.

EXHIBITIONS:
RETROSPECTIVE: Museum of Modern Art, 1947, and Institute of Modern Art, Boston, 1948. 

DOCUMENTARY: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1957.

ONE_MAN: Downtown Gallery, 1930, '32 (Sacco-Vanzetti), '33 (Mooney Case), '44, '49, '51, '52, '55, '57 ("Shape of Content" and Sorrows of Priapus", illustrations), '59, '61; Julien Levy Gallery, 1940; Arts Council of Great Britain, London and circuit, 1947; Albright Art School, 1950; Perls Gallery, 1950; Art Club of Chicago, 1951; traveling exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif. Palace of Legion of Honor, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 1954; Detroit Institute of Art, 1954; Art Institute of Chicago ("Sholem Aleichem", illustration), 1954; Venice Biennale, 1954; Southern Illinois University, 1954; Renaissance  Society, University of Chicago, 1954; Fogg Art Museum, 1956; American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1958; Katonah Gallery, 1959; Leicester Galleries, London, 1959; University of Louisville (silkscreens), 1960; University of Utah (graphics), 1960; Library of New Haven Jewish Community Center, 1961.

PUBLICATIONS: Portfolio, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow" by Ben Shahn, published by Stern, 1931; "Ben Shahn" by J.T. Soby, Penguin, 1947; Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, 1947; "Ben Shahn" by S. Rodman, Harpers, 1951; "The Shape of Content" by Ben Shahn, Harvard University Press, 1957.

FEATURE ARTICLES: Hound and Horn, 1933; Magazine of Art, 4/44, 10/46; Creative Art, 6/32; Art News, 11/10/44, 5/49, summer 1954, 2/55; '48 Magazine of the Year, 1/48, 6/48; Omni book, 3/48; Image, autumn 1949; Look, 11/24/59, 6/50; Portfolio, 1951; Perspectives USA, fall 1952, 1/52; Life, 10/4/54; Time, 1/31/55, cover 7/18/55; Esquire, 12/55; Fortune, 3/55, 1/56; Arts, 1956; Kunsten Ida, #1, Oslo, 1956; Goya, Madrid, 1957; Impression, 9/57; Art in America, 1/58; Perspecta, Yale Architectural Journal, 1957; London Sunday Times, 3/16/58; New Republic, 7/7/58; Reconstructionist, 10/3/58; American Heritage10/58.

ILLUSTRATIONS: In various issues of Fortune, Harper's Magazine, New Republic, Town & Country, Charm, Seventeen, Lamp, etc., as well as many books including "Thirteen Poems" by Wilfred Owen, Gehenna Press, 1956; "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" by John Berryman,