Apotheosis

art © Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Apotheosis

1932-1933
Paintings
Tempera on gessoed board
Framed: 30 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 2 in. (76.84 × 153.04 × 5.08 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the American Art Council, the American Art Department Acquisition and Deaccession funds, Lyn and Norman Lear, the American Art Acquisition Committee (Ted Slavin, Lynda and Stewart Resnick, the Fairchild-Martindale Foundation, and Thomas Lifka), Leslie Falick and Norman Koplof, Janice G. Gootkin, and the Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Foundation (M.2012.111)
American Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Ben Shahn. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1968.
  • Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the Artist as an American: Ben Shahn: a Biography with Pictures. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
  • Charlot, Jean. "Ben Shahn." Hound & Horn 6, no.4 (1933): 632-634.

Exhibition history

  • Shahn, Mooney, and the Apotheosis of American Labor Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 22, 2018 - November 25, 2018