Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American-Jewish artist.He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Ben Shahn immigrated to the United States as a child and was apprenticed to a lithographer after finishing elementary school. "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" Between 1931 and 1932, painter Ben Shahn (1898–1969) created a series of twenty-three gouaches and temperas on the infamous trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Reproduction Number: --- Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. Ben Shahn and the passion of Sacco and Vanzetti. BEN SHAHN "all art," wrote Roger Fry in Vision and Design , "gives us an experience freed from _L jLthe disturbing conditions of actual life." In the 1920s, he studied at New York University and City College, and very briefly at the National Academy of Design. [Ben Shahn; Alejandro Anreus; Jersey City Museum. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in 1920 for the murder of a guard during a robbery of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Ben Shahn and the Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. ; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)] -- Between 1931 and 1932, painter Ben Shahn created a series of 23 gouaches and temperas on the infamous trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Get this from a library! Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American-Jewish artist. Artist Ben Shahn, himself an immigrant from Lithuania, received public recognition for his series of twenty-three painting on Sacco and Vanzetti, one of which was added to the Syracuse University Art Collection in 1967. If we accept this definition, then we must reject much of Ben Shahn's painting, as Fry rejected Bruegel's, for it does more than remind us of the Ben Shahn (en russe : Бен Шан), né le 12 septembre 1898 à Kowno dans l'Empire russe, aujourd'hui Kaunas en Lituanie, et mort le 14 mars 1969 à New York, est un artiste peintre, un photographe et un professeur.Il a été naturalisé américain.. Biographie Title: Ben Shahn and the passion of Sacco and Vanzetti Creator(s): Jersey City Museum., Date Created/Published: 2001. EMBED EMBED (for wordpress ... Ben Shahn and the Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti by Alejandro Anreus; Ben Shahn. Wikidata Q695239 Medium: 1 print (poster) : silkscreen ; 76 x 56 cm.