Ben Shahn
Apotheosis1932-1933

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Artist or Maker: Ben Shahn
Lithuania, active United States, 1898-1969
Title: Apotheosis
Date Made: 1932-1933
Medium: Tempera on gessoed board
Dimensions: Framed: 30 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 2 in. (76.84 × 153.04 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: M.2012.111
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Provenance: Estate of the artist. [Kennedy Galleries, New York, by 1968]. Spiro Family, LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut, to; [Debra Force Fine Art, New York, sold 2012 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Ben Shahn. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1968.
Charlot, Jean. "Ben Shahn." Hound & Horn 6, no.4 (1933): 632-634.
Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the Artist as an American: Ben Shahn: a Biography with Pictures. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
Selected Exhibition History: Shahn, Mooney, and the Apotheosis of American Labor. July 22, 2018 - November 25, 2018
Copyright: art © Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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Not on view

Artist or Maker: Ben Shahn
Lithuania, active United States, 1898-1969
Title: Apotheosis
Date Made: 1932-1933
Medium: Tempera on gessoed board
Dimensions: Framed: 30 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 2 in. (76.84 × 153.04 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: M.2012.111
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Provenance: Estate of the artist. [Kennedy Galleries, New York, by 1968]. Spiro Family, LLC, Greenwich, Connecticut, to; [Debra Force Fine Art, New York, sold 2012 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Ben Shahn. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1968.
Charlot, Jean. "Ben Shahn." Hound & Horn 6, no.4 (1933): 632-634.
Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the Artist as an American: Ben Shahn: a Biography with Pictures. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
Selected Exhibition History: Shahn, Mooney, and the Apotheosis of American Labor. July 22, 2018 - November 25, 2018
Copyright: art © Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY