1968 BEN SHAHN PSYCHEDELIC DOVE OF PEACE MCCARTHY POSTER IMPORTANT VINTAGE LRG

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1968 BEN SHAHN PSYCHEDELIC DOVE OF PEACE MCCARTHY POSTER IMPORTANT VINTAGE LRG:
$391.00

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ITEM: Youare offerding on an original rare vintage 1968 poster created byBen Shahn for Eugene McCarthy, emphasizing McCarthy’s peace platform with psychedelic rock music inspired dove to show the candidate\'s (running against Nixon) opposition to the Vietnam WarBen Shahn, one of the most innovative artists to emerge from the WPA into the era of public World War II art, this is a coveted piece of history and World War II poster art.Artist Ben Shahn was born in Lithuania, but came to America where he became famous for his works of social realism. Shahn discusses this poster at length in an interview for the Smithsonian regarding the role of graphic image propaganda in political discourse. It\'s an important, iconic image.

Measures 24 1/2\" x 37\".

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CONDITION: This is in very fine condition, one tiny nick to lower left corner as seen and slight staining upper middle above the text as seen

BIO:

Apainter, teacher, graphic artist, and photographer, Ben Shahn was devoted to the figurative tradition and was one of the more significant social critics among painters of the 20th century.

He was born in Kaunus, Lithuania on September 12, 1898, and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1906. From the ages of 15 to 18, Shahn was apprenticed to a New York lithographer. In 1919, he enrolled at NewYork University, completing his studies at the City College of New Yorkin 1924. After 2 years studying at the National Academy of Design, Shahn traveled in Europe and North Africa. Returning to America, he hadhis first one-man show in 1929.

Shahn\'s mature style and his emphasis on specific social themes date from the 1930s. His art was influenced by photographer Walker Evans, with whom he shared quarters. In 1931-1932, Shahn painted 23 gouaches and 2 mural panels based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case. The best known is the Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti,executed in tempera, with elongated bodies and slight caricature of thefaces, the work is a masterpiece of understatement. This style remainsconsistent throughout his work. Fifteen gouache studies (1932-1933) dealing with labor leader Tom Mooney aroused the interest of Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera, and Shahn became Rivera\'s assistant on the murals for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center, New York City.

Inthe eight paintings on the theme of prohibition for the Public Works Arts Project, Shahn used techniques learned from Rivera in murals and panel paintings commissioned by numerous Federal agencies. The one titled W.C.T.U. Parade
(1933-1934) is best known. His mural for the Community Center of the Federal Housing Development in Roosevelt, N.J. (1937-1938), is the most typical. Shahn\'s themes reflected a variety of topical problems from anti-semitism to unfair labor conditions. He framed them into a continuous wall plane that is subdivided by architectural devices. Though he borrowed the organizing motifs from Rivera, Shahn\'s murals are regarded as generally more readable and less crowded. Not as well known are his photographs for the Farm Security Administration. A typical photograph is the one titled Arkansas Share Cropper\'s Family.

During the 1940s Shahn executed graphics for the Office of War Information and, later, for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Register, Vote, a 1944 employment poster for the CIO, shows his concern with social equality and his ability to integrate language and visual form in a coherent design.

He had a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1947.

Afterthe 1940s Shahn moved from what he called \"social realism\" to a \"personal realism.\" He also increasingly turned to tempera painting andgraphics. Yet his iconography was never \"personal\" or autobiographical. Rather, he reached a universal expression through thedevices of symbolism and allegory, the stylized line, and the colorful palette, which are hallmarks of his style. Whether his subject was music or a theme after the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, it is said that he could evoke worlds with a single pen stroke or color overlay. Blind Botanist, a drawing for a painting (1954), demonstrates Shahn\'s ability to express the poignant, often tragic, state of mankind.

Shahn\'s Lucky Dragonseries (1960-1962) visualizes the tragedy of the Japanese fishing vessel that sailed into an atomic testing area in 1954. Perhaps his greatest honor was his appointment as Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry at Harvard University (1956-1957). He then continued to work prolifically and with social responsibility. He taught and lectured at avariety of educational institutions.

His work is represented inmany prestigious public and private collections including over 60 museums such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Ben Shahn died in New York City on March 14, 1969.

Sources:
Who Was Who In American Art
Encyclopedia of World Biography
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