Ben Shahn
Plates contributed
The 1 plate attributed to Ben Shahn in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0377 | USA | Hardship, suffering, and war | — | Clervaux |
Notes
One plate in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0377 (USA). Credited ‘American’ in the MoMA Master Checklist. Born 1898; died 1969 per src-icp-ben-shahn-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘1898 - 1969’, ‘American (b. Lithuania)’). Day-month tokens September 12, 1898 / March 14, 1969 and the Kovno (Kaunas) birthplace / New York City place-of-death tokens are independently confirmed at Tier-3 by src-britannica-ben-shahn (Encyclopedia Britannica is Tier 3 per CREDIBILITY.md) (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09: ‘Ben Shahn (born September 12, 1898, Kaunas, Russia [now in Lithuania]—died March 14, 1969, New York, New York, U.S.) was an American painter and graphic artist’). Also corroborated by src-wikipedia-ben-shahn-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09). Birth name ‘Benjamin Shahn’ per src-britannica-ben-shahn (‘Also known as: Benjamin Shahn’). Resettlement Administration / FSA period 1935–1938 per src-icp-ben-shahn-archive (verbatim: ‘In the 1930s, Shahn was employed as an artist at the Resettlement Administration in Washington DC, where from 1935 to 1938 he also worked in a part-time position in Roy Stryker’s photography department’). Britannica gives the same period as ‘From 1935 to 1938 he worked for the Farm Security Administration as an artist and photographer’. The single FoM plate (photo-0377) is identified by src-wikipedia-ben-shahn-pointer (verbatim: ‘Edward Steichen selected Shahn’s work, including his October 1935 photograph The family of a Resettlement Administration client in the doorway of their home, Boone County, Arkansas, for MoMA’s world-touring The Family of Man which was seen by 9 million visitors. Only the huddled figure of the woman on the right hand half of Shahn’s 35mm frame was blown up for the display.’) — the Boone County, Arkansas plate-source identification carries pointer status pending a Library of Congress FSA/OWI catalog match.
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/ben-shahn
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