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Ben Shahn
Apotheosis1932-1933

Not on view
Wide horizontal oil painting with three scenes: suited figures at a committee table, a lone figure seated in a red chair, and a crowd at an iron fence with a placard-carrying figure at right
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
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
  • Shahn, Mooney, and the Apotheosis of American Labor. July 22, 2018 - November 25, 2018