Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times.HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS The Harvard University Art Museums are the Fogg Art Museum, which specializes in Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which specializes in art of Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. Best remembered as a painter and graphic artist, Ben Shahn also left behind a body of photographs driven by the same passionately leftist left·ism also Left·ism n. 1. The ideology of the political left. 2. Belief in or support of the tenets of the political left. left politics as the rest of his art. His early documentary images, the seldom-seen New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of photographs made between 1931 and 1936, capture subjects ranging from protest marches to hand-painted shop signs. The first substantial look at these photos in thirty years, this exhibition brings together 118 images--not counting related ink drawings, paintings, mural studies, and ephemera e·phem·er·a n. A plural of ephemeron. ephemera Noun, pl items designed to last only for a short time, such as programmes or posters Noun 1. . Yale University Press promises a full-scale catalogue. Feb. 5--Apr.30; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 10--Aug. 27; Grey Art Gallery, New York, Nov. 14, 2000-Jan. 27, 2001; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Apr. 19--June 17, 2001. |
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