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Selected Bibliography <\/h2>\n

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Books by and\/or Illustrated by Ben Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Shahn, Ben. Maximus of Tyre, On the Dispute About Images. <\/em>Privately printed, 1963.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013. Maximus of Tyre<\/em>, On the Dispute About Images<\/em>. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover. <\/em>Paris: Trianon Press, 1965.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover<\/em>. Boston: Little Brown & Company. 1965.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013.The Shape of Content<\/em>. Harvard University Press, 1957 (Reprinted 1992).<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013. A Partridge in a Pear Tree. <\/em>Privately printed, 1948. New York: Curt Valentin, 1949.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2013. A Partridge in a Pear Tree<\/em>. Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Special Collections ; ROBSN M1741 .T84 1951<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Books Illustrated by Ben Shahn <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Berry, Wendell. November Twenty-Six, Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Three<\/em>\u202f<\/em>: Poem. Illustrated by Ben Shahn, 1st ed, G. Braziller, 1964. With calligraphy by Ben Shahn. <\/p>\n

Berryman, John. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet<\/em>; [Poem]. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. <\/p>\n

Cummings, E.E. Tom<\/em>. Santa Fe: The Rydell Press, 1935. Frontispiece by Ben Shahn. <\/p>\n

Dahlberg, Edward. The Sorrows of Priapus<\/em>. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1957. <\/p>\n

Hallelujah<\/em>. 24 lithographs by Ben Shahn. New York: Kennedy Graphics, 1970.<\/p>\n

Howe, Irving and Eliezer Greenberg. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories<\/em>. New York: Viking, 1954. <\/p>\n

Hudson, R. A., et al. Kuboyama and the Saga of the Lucky Dragon<\/em>. T. Yoseloff, 1965. <\/p>\n

Reid, Alastair. Ounce, Dice, Trice<\/em>. [First edition], Little, Brown, 1958. Available online<\/a>. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Books, Articles, and Documentaries Ben Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Archives of American Art, Ben Shahn Papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bryson Shahn, Bernarda. Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1972. <\/p>\n

—–. \u201cBen Shahn and Lettering.\u201d The Penrose Graphic Arts International Annual<\/em> 66 (1973): 90\u2013100. <\/p>\n

—–. \u201cBen Shahn and the Psalms.\u201d In Ben Shahn. <\/em>Ed. John D. Morse. <\/em>New York: Praeger, 1972. 217\u201318.<\/p>\n

Chevlowe, Susan. Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n

For the exhibition of the same title (The Jewish Museum, November 8, 1998 to March 7, 1999), see this website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Greenfeld, Howard. Ben Shahn: An Artist\u2019s Life. <\/em>New York: Random House, 1998. <\/p>\n

Katzman, Laura, Beatriz Cordero Mart\u00edn, Christof Decker, and John Fagg. Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity<\/em>. <\/strong>Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, 2023.<\/p>\n

Kendall, M. Sue. \u201cShahn, Ben<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2013). <\/p>\n

Levinson, Cynthia (text) and Evan Turk (illustrations). The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art<\/em>. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021. <\/p>\n

—–. \u201cBen Shahn\u2019s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene.\u201d In Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em>. Ed. Susan Chevlowe. New York: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 37\u201365. <\/p>\n

Morse, John D. Ben Shahn. <\/em>New York: Praeger, 1972.<\/p>\n

Pohl, Frances K. Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947\u20131954<\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

—–. Ben Shahn<\/em>: With Ben Shahn\u2019s Writings<\/em>. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1993. <\/p>\n

Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York, Quadrangle, 1973.<\/p>\n

—–.Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn: 102 graphics, Including 32 in Full Color<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>New York: Dover Publications, 1982. <\/p>\n

Shahn, Ben. Lectures at Skowhegan, 1954, 1959, 1960 or 69 (Skowhegan Lecture Archive)<\/a><\/p>\n

Shahn, Ben and Archibald McLeish, ed. The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. <\/p>\n

Soby, James Thrall. Ben Shahn: His Graphic Art<\/em>. New York: G. Braziller, 1957. <\/p>\n

Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the artist as an American; Ben Shahn: A Biography With Pictures<\/em>. New York: Harper, 1951.<\/p>\n

Wallner, Susan. Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice<\/em><\/a>. PBS, 2001.<\/p>\n

See this website<\/a> that accompanies the film <\/em><\/p>\n

Weiss, Margaret, ed. Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album for the Thirties<\/em>. New York: Da Capo Pres, 1973. <\/p>\n

White, Lauren. Art as Activism: The Compelling Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em><\/a>. Mdhumanities. YouTube 17 June 2009 (9:59).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Books, Articles, and Essays on Bernarda Bryson Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Bryson Shahn, Bernarda. The Zoo of Zeus: A Handbook of Mythological Beasts and Creatures<\/em>. New York: Grossman Publishers 1964. <\/p>\n

—–. <\/em>Gilgamesh: Man\u2019s First Story<\/em>. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1966. <\/p>\n

Text and illustrations by Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Available on Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

—–. <\/em>Original Hand-Bound Mock-Up for The Grindstone of God: A Samoyed Fable<\/em>, with 26 Original Pencil Illustrations by Bernarda Bryson Shahn, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edwards, Amber. StateoftheArtsNJ, A Quiet Audacity: Bernarda Bryson Shahn<\/em><\/a>. 1991) YouTube 21 June 2019 (28:49).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Books, Articles, and Videos on the Shahn\u2019s House and Collection <\/strong><\/h3>\n

The house was designed in 1936 by Alfred Kastner and Louis Kahn, with a later addition by George Nakashima.<\/em><\/p>\n

Archives of American Art. <\/em>Bernarda Bryson Shahn papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aubrey, Dan. \u201cInside the Shahn House: A Tale of Artists & Architects<\/a>.\u201d PrincetonInfo<\/em> 23 June 2021.<\/p>\n

Collection of Bernarda and Ben Shahn<\/em>. Rago Arts and Auction, 14 November 2010. <\/p>\n

Destination Anywhere, The Story of Jersey Homesteads<\/em><\/a> 16 April 2019 YouTube (3:25).<\/p>\n

Hyman, Vicki. \u201cFamily of storied N.J. artist Ben Shahn to sell home, personal collection<\/a>.\u201d NJ.com <\/em>14 November 2010<\/p>\n

Eve M. Kahn, \u201cShahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale<\/a>.\u201d New York Times<\/em> 14 November 2010.<\/p>\n

Library of Ben & Bernarda Shahn<\/em><\/a>. Lorne Blair, Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera.<\/p>\n

Wallner, Susan. Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey at Morven Museum & Garden<\/em><\/a> StateoftheArtsNJ. YouTube 14 December 2019 (Short documentary on Roosevelt, NJ, 7:47).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Additional Readings and Viewings<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jaffe, Irma B. \u201cBaskin, Leonard<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2021).<\/p>\n

Goldberg, David J., Joseph Gutmann, Bezalel Narkiss, and Shalom Sabar. \u201cJewish Art: History and Iconography<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2021).<\/p>\n

Metzger, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Shalom Sabar, and Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. \u201cJewish art: Hebrew Books and Illustration<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2018).<\/p>\n

Robbins, Tim. Cradle Will Rock<\/em><\/a>. Burbank, CA: Touchstones Pictures, 1999.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Selected Bibliography    Books by and\/or Illustrated by Ben Shahn Shahn, Ben. Maximus of Tyre, On the Dispute About Images. Privately printed, 1963. \u2014\u2013. Maximus of Tyre, On the Dispute About Images. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964. \u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover. Paris: Trianon Press, 1965. \u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover. Boston: Little Brown & Company. 1965. \u2014\u2013.The Shape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"

 <\/h2>

Selected Bibliography <\/h2>

 <\/p>

Books by and\/or Illustrated by Ben Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>

Shahn, Ben. Maximus of Tyre, On the Dispute About Images. <\/em>Privately printed, 1963.<\/p>

\u2014\u2013. Maximus of Tyre<\/em>, On the Dispute About Images<\/em>. New York: Pantheon Books, 1964.<\/p>

\u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover. <\/em>Paris: Trianon Press, 1965.<\/p>

\u2014\u2013.Haggadah for Passover<\/em>. Boston: Little Brown & Company. 1965.<\/p>

\u2014\u2013.The Shape of Content<\/em>. Harvard University Press, 1957 (Reprinted 1992).<\/p>

\u2014\u2013. A Partridge in a Pear Tree. <\/em>Privately printed, 1948. New York: Curt Valentin, 1949.<\/p>

\u2014\u2013. A Partridge in a Pear Tree<\/em>. Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Special Collections ; ROBSN M1741 .T84 1951<\/p>

 <\/p>

Books Illustrated by Ben Shahn <\/strong><\/h3>

Berry, Wendell. November Twenty-Six, Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Three<\/em>\u202f<\/em>: Poem. Illustrated by Ben Shahn, 1st ed, G. Braziller, 1964. With calligraphy by Ben Shahn. <\/p>

Berryman, John. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet<\/em>; [Poem]. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. <\/p>

Cummings, E.E. Tom<\/em>. Santa Fe: The Rydell Press, 1935. Frontispiece by Ben Shahn. <\/p>

Dahlberg, Edward. The Sorrows of Priapus<\/em>. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1957. <\/p>

Hallelujah<\/em>. 24 lithographs by Ben Shahn. New York: Kennedy Graphics, 1970.<\/p>

Howe, Irving and Eliezer Greenberg. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories<\/em>. New York: Viking, 1954. <\/p>

Hudson, R. A., et al. Kuboyama and the Saga of the Lucky Dragon<\/em>. T. Yoseloff, 1965. <\/p>

Reid, Alastair. Ounce, Dice, Trice<\/em>. [First edition], Little, Brown, 1958. Available online<\/a>. <\/p>

 <\/p>

Books, Articles, and Documentaries Ben Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>

Archives of American Art, Ben Shahn Papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>

Bryson Shahn, Bernarda. Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1972. <\/p>

-----. \u201cBen Shahn and Lettering.\u201d The Penrose Graphic Arts International Annual<\/em> 66 (1973): 90\u2013100. <\/p>

-----. \u201cBen Shahn and the Psalms.\u201d In Ben Shahn. <\/em>Ed. John D. Morse. <\/em>New York: Praeger, 1972. 217\u201318.<\/p>

Chevlowe, Susan. Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.<\/p>

For the exhibition of the same title (The Jewish Museum, November 8, 1998 to March 7, 1999), see this website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>

Greenfeld, Howard. Ben Shahn: An Artist\u2019s Life. <\/em>New York: Random House, 1998. <\/p>

Katzman, Laura, Beatriz Cordero Mart\u00edn, Christof Decker, and John Fagg. Ben Shahn: On Nonconformity<\/em>. <\/strong>Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, 2023.<\/p>

Kendall, M. Sue. \u201cShahn, Ben<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2013). <\/p>

Levinson, Cynthia (text) and Evan Turk (illustrations). The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art<\/em>. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2021. <\/p>

-----. \u201cBen Shahn\u2019s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene.\u201d In Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em>. Ed. Susan Chevlowe. New York: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 37\u201365. <\/p>

Morse, John D. Ben Shahn. <\/em>New York: Praeger, 1972.<\/p>

Pohl, Frances K. Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947\u20131954<\/em>. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.<\/p>

-----. Ben Shahn<\/em>: With Ben Shahn\u2019s Writings<\/em>. San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1993. <\/p>

Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn<\/em>. New York, Quadrangle, 1973.<\/p>

-----.Prints and Posters of Ben Shahn: 102 graphics, Including 32 in Full Color<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>New York: Dover Publications, 1982. <\/p>

Shahn, Ben. Lectures at Skowhegan, 1954, 1959, 1960 or 69 (Skowhegan Lecture Archive)<\/a><\/p>

Shahn, Ben and Archibald McLeish, ed. The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. <\/p>

Soby, James Thrall. Ben Shahn: His Graphic Art<\/em>. New York: G. Braziller, 1957. <\/p>

Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the artist as an American; Ben Shahn: A Biography With Pictures<\/em>. New York: Harper, 1951.<\/p>

Wallner, Susan. Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice<\/em><\/a>. PBS, 2001.<\/p>

See this website<\/a> that accompanies the film <\/em><\/p>

Weiss, Margaret, ed. Ben Shahn, Photographer: An Album for the Thirties<\/em>. New York: Da Capo Pres, 1973. <\/p>

White, Lauren. Art as Activism: The Compelling Paintings of Ben Shahn<\/em><\/a>. Mdhumanities. YouTube 17 June 2009 (9:59).<\/p>

 <\/p>

Books, Articles, and Essays on Bernarda Bryson Shahn<\/strong><\/h3>

Bryson Shahn, Bernarda. The Zoo of Zeus: A Handbook of Mythological Beasts and Creatures<\/em>. New York: Grossman Publishers 1964. <\/p>

-----. <\/em>Gilgamesh: Man\u2019s First Story<\/em>. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1966. <\/p>

Text and illustrations by Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Available on Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>

-----. <\/em>Original Hand-Bound Mock-Up for The Grindstone of God: A Samoyed Fable<\/em>, with 26 Original Pencil Illustrations by Bernarda Bryson Shahn, see here<\/a>.<\/p>

Edwards, Amber. StateoftheArtsNJ, A Quiet Audacity: Bernarda Bryson Shahn<\/em><\/a>. 1991) YouTube 21 June 2019 (28:49).<\/p>

 <\/p>

Books, Articles, and Videos on the Shahn\u2019s House and Collection <\/strong><\/h3>

The house was designed in 1936 by Alfred Kastner and Louis Kahn, with a later addition by George Nakashima.<\/em><\/p>

Archives of American Art. <\/em>Bernarda Bryson Shahn papers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>

Aubrey, Dan. \u201cInside the Shahn House: A Tale of Artists & Architects<\/a>.\u201d PrincetonInfo<\/em> 23 June 2021.<\/p>

Collection of Bernarda and Ben Shahn<\/em>. Rago Arts and Auction, 14 November 2010. <\/p>

Destination Anywhere, The Story of Jersey Homesteads<\/em><\/a> 16 April 2019 YouTube (3:25).<\/p>

Hyman, Vicki. \u201cFamily of storied N.J. artist Ben Shahn to sell home, personal collection<\/a>.\u201d NJ.com <\/em>14 November 2010<\/p>

Eve M. Kahn, \u201cShahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale<\/a>.\u201d New York Times<\/em> 14 November 2010.<\/p>

Library of Ben & Bernarda Shahn<\/em><\/a>. Lorne Blair, Rare Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera.<\/p>

Wallner, Susan. Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey at Morven Museum & Garden<\/em><\/a> StateoftheArtsNJ. YouTube 14 December 2019 (Short documentary on Roosevelt, NJ, 7:47).<\/p>

 <\/p>

Additional Readings and Viewings<\/strong><\/h3>

Jaffe, Irma B. \u201cBaskin, Leonard<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2021).<\/p>

Goldberg, David J., Joseph Gutmann, Bezalel Narkiss, and Shalom Sabar. \u201cJewish Art: History and Iconography<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2021).<\/p>

Metzger, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Shalom Sabar, and Gabrielle Sed-Rajna. \u201cJewish art: Hebrew Books and Illustration<\/a>.\u201d Grove Art Online<\/em>, 2003 (updated 2018).<\/p>

Robbins, Tim. Cradle Will Rock<\/em><\/a>. Burbank, CA: Touchstones Pictures, 1999.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ben-shahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}