 Artist's arttributes:
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Painting, Photography, Works on Paper |
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Social Realism |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 131 |
| Germany | 8 |
| Japan | 4 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
15 |
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George Krevsky Gallery, USA |
12 |
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Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, USA |
11 |
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Downtown Gallery, USA |
8 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
5 |
Biography: 
12.9.1898 Born in Kaunas (Kovno) (LV)
14.3.1969 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 153
Solo shows 29
2012
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| Ben Shahn - Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima City |
2011
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| Ben Shahn: Cross Media Artist/Photographs, Paintings and Graphic Art - The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Hayama |
2010
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| People Wasn't Made to Burn: Ben Shahn and the Hickman Story - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
2005
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| Ben Shahn - The Rilke Portfolio For the Sake of a Single Verse - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Ben Shahn - Marunouchi Gallery, Tokyo |
2004
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| Morality and Mass Media - Ben Shahn and the Art of Journalism - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Ben Shahn - Susan Teller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Ben Shahn: Freedom of Speech - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ben Shahn: His Art and His Mission - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| Justice on Trial - Ben Shan’s Case for Sacco and Vanzetti - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
2001
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| Ben Shahn' s New York - the photography of modern times - Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL |
2000
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| Ben Shahn: Drawingss - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ben Shahn - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
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| Ben Shahn' s New York - the photography of modern times - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA |
1997
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| Ben Shahn: Lithographs - Barton Art Galleries, Wilson, NC |
1979
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| For the Sake of a Singe Verse: Lithographs by Ben Shahn - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
1977
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| Ben Shahn: A Retrospective, 1898–1969 - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1969
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| Homage to Ben Shahn - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1963
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| Ben Shahn: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings, 1901-1958 - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1962
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| Ben Shahn. En amerikansk kommentar - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
1959
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| Ben Shahn: Silk-Screen Prints - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
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| Ben Shahn - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1954
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| Drawings by Ben Shahn - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1952
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| Ben Shahn: Paintings - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1947
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| Ben Shahn - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1944
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| Ben Shahn: Paintings in Tempera - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1933
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| Ben Shahn: The Tom Mooney Case - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1932
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| The Passion of Sacco-Vanzetti: Gouaches by Ben Shahn - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
Group shows 124
2013
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| Real/surreal - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
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| Building a Collection: 20th Century Masters - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| More American Photographs - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
2012
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| INsite/INchelsea - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Vote for Me and I'll Set You Free: Works from the Collection of Lawrence B. Benenson - Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY |
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| Howard Greenberg, Collection - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Coal & Steel, Sources & Uses - Susan Teller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Full Color Depression - Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC |
2011
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| A Selection of Very Fine Pictures - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| More American Photographs - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Industrial Modern - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM |
2010
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| Introducing America To Americans: Fsa Photography - Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA |
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| Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Transforming the Figure: Post WWII Prints - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX |
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| Portrait of Depression-Era America - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Farm Security Administration - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Reading - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Close Observation: Drawings, Sketches and Mixed-Media Works from the Gallery Collection - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| In Good Company: Figurative Drawings from the Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Group Show - Forum Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Agents of Change: Mexican Muralists and New Deal Artists - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Day Job - Susan Teller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| Art And Activism In The Twentieth Century:selections From The Permanent Collection - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| This Is Not a Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Double Lives: American Painters as Illustrators 1850-1950 - New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT |
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| The Test of Time: Highlights in American Art - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Made in America - Forum Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
2007
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| 15th Anniversary Exhibition - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Animal Fair - Gallery 705, Stroudsburg, PA |
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| Conflicting Current: Aspects of American Art 1920-1950 - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| The Urban Myth: Visions of the City - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| When Art Worlds Collide - The 60 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Closer Look - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| American Modernism - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| American Social Realism: 1920 - 1950 - Forum Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| For the People - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2006
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| It's a Small World - Gallery 705, Stroudsburg, PA |
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| My America: Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 60 Years - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| My America - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Ben Shahn＆Alexander Calder - Gallery Artzone-Kaguraoka, Kyoto |
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| 81 Heads - University of Maine Museum of Arts - UMMA, Bangor, ME |
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| Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Architecture in Art - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2005
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| American Moderns 1900-1950 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Art of Engagement - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Gothic: Vintage Photographs from the 1930s and 40s - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
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| Scenes of American Labor - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Profiling America - Forum für Fotografie, Cologne |
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| Lifting the Rose-Colored Glasses: Three Social Realists - Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY |
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| Villa America - American Moderns - 1900–1950 - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper - - Forum Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2009) |
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| Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Leporello, Een reis door de collectie - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| The Bitter Years - Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL |
2004
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| Common Ground - Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1930s: Modern American Art & Design - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 20th Century Masters: From the Gallery Collection - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| American Expressionism - Art and Social Change, 1920s–1950s - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
2003
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| Love And Joy About Letters - The Work Of Ben Shahn and Mirella Bentivoglio - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Paper 6 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| New York - Capitale de la photographie (1900 – 2000) - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Crack of the Bat: The Art of Baseball - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Da Renoir a de Staël. Roberto Longhi e il moderno - MAR Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, Ravenna |
2002
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| New York: Capital of Photography - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Routes toward Modernism - American Painting 1870 - 1950 - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| Paper Invitational 5 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Greed and Other Recent Acquisitions - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Der kühle Blick - Realismus der zwanziger Jahre - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
2000
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| Propaganda and dreams - photography of the 1930s in the USSR and the USA - The State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg |
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| Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Artist Immigrants in America in the 20th Century - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Propagada and Dreams - Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| The Modern Child (images Of Children In Twentieth-century Art) - Galerie St. Etienne, New York City, NY |
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| Childe Hassam Robert Gwathmey Fairfield Porter Ben Shahn & Jules Pascin - ACA Galleries, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Posters American Style - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection fr. National Museum - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| The Documentary Eye - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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| In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience 1930-1970 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
1997
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| Facets of the Figure: A Spectrum of 20th Century American Art - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Counterpoints: American Art, 1930-1945 - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| The WPA Era: Urban Views & Visions - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Art of the Forties - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Figures of Speech: Social Realism of the WPA Era - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1989
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| A Selection of Twentieth Century American Art - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Nuclear Weapons Freeze Benefit Exhibition - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1981
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| American Photography in the Thirties - The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta |
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| America 20er-40er Jahre Amerikanischer Realismus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1980
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| A History of American Art Through Printmaking - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT |
1979
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| Gifts of Drawing - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1978
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| Photographes du XXe siècle : Stieglitz, Steichen et leurs successeurs - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Extraordinary Men - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1976
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| Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen and Their Successors - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Druckgrafik von Künstlern der USA nach 1945 - Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel |
1971
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| Artist as Adversary - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1968
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| Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art 1879-1967 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1967
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| 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1965
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| Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Houston Private Collections - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Prints by Seventeen Artists - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1962
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| The Bitter Years: 1935-41 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1961
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| American Exhibition 64th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1959
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| American Painting and Sculpture 63rd Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Two Centuries of American Art: 1750-1950 - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Internationale Ausstellung Graphik der Gegenwart 1959 - Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden |
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
1958
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| Personal Contacts: A Decade of Contemporary Drawings, 1948-1958 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1956
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| Shadow and Substance: The Shadow Theater of Montmartre and Modern Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1955
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| Ten American Collectors - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1954
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| Four American Graphic Designers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| 4 Americans: From the Real to the Abstract - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1951
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| Ben Shahn, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1948
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| Portraits in Prints - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Paintings by Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jack Levine, John Marin, Ben Shahn - - Downtown Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 1969) |
1947
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| Large-Scale Modern Paintings - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1943
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| Americans 1943: Realists and Magic-Realists - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1932
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| Murals by American Painters and Photographers - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1930
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| 46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years of Age - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
Canada
| | Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON
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Germany
USA
| | Aaron Galleries, Chicago, IL
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| | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Susan Teller Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Collections 33
Canada
| | Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Japan
| | Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
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| | NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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South Korea
| | Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju
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Spain
| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England)
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USA
| | Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX
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| | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
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| | The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
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| | Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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| | Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
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| | The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
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| | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
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| | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
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| | Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
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| | Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
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