During the Great Depression, Ben Shahn—primarily a painter and printmaker—worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration. For five dollars a day plus five cents per mile, he drove ...

Ben Shahn was one of the foremost Social Realist artists of the 1930s. Shahn was born in 1898 in Kovno, Lithuania, the first of five children of a traditional Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a ...

This lithograph is from the Rilke Portfolio by Ben Shahn, which is the artist's response to the work of Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Like many poets of the time, Rilke's work focused ...