Lou Dorfsman; developed ads, identity for CBS Oct 27, 2008
He also commissioned work from Feliks Topolski, a portraitist, and the printmaker and painter Ben Shahn, though Shahn was then under scrutiny by the House Un-American Activities Committee for his affiliation with leftist groups and causes. After Golden's sudden death in 1959 at 48, Mr. Dorfsman was named creative director of CBS television, and in 1964 he became the director of design for the entire Columbia Broadcasting System. (Boston Globe)
Nasher Sculpture Center celebrates five years Sep 21, 2008
The painting by Ben Shahn shows tennis players dressed in white floating on a yellow background, reflecting Raymond Nasher's love of tennis, his daughter said. Photographs next to the painting show the couple and friends on the tennis court. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Hightstown man donates Landau print to library Aug 7, 2008
Among them were the children of artists such as Jacob Landau, Ben Shahn, and Gregorio Prestopino. Landau (1917-2001) was one of Sackowitz' neighbors growing up. (NJ.com -- Times)
Bevy of shows on display at Georgia Museum of Art Jul 24, 2008
" The permanent collection highlights works by such celebrated masters as Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keefe, Stuart Davis, Frederick Church and Arthur Dove, along with a compilation of Italian Renaissance paintings, Asian works and Southern decorative arts. In addition to featuring some of its most noted works, the museum has reopened with four other presentations, the focus of the latest "After Hours at GMOA," which will be hosted by the Friends of the Museum's Young at Art committee and is set... (Athens Banner-Herald)
His scattered dreams Jun 17, 2008
It begins brilliantly, with work completed when Twombly was the student of Robert Motherwell and the educator, draughtsman and painter Ben Shahn. Of the same generation as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Twombly luckily escaped the fate of being a second-generation abstract expressionist. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Mar 21, 2008
Sondheim also collected numerous images of Jews at labor and leisure and pursued his passion for illustrators and artists Ben Shahn, Moritz Oppenheim, Ephraim Lilien, Alfred Szyk, Alphonse L;vy and Bernard Picart. Joseph Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St.. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
New library exhibition celebrates daily, ceremonial moments in Jewish life cycle Mar 21, 2008
Sondheim also collected numerous images of Jews at labor and leisure, and works by illustrators and artists Ben Shahn, Moritz Oppenheim, Ephraim Lilien, Alfred Szyk, Alphonse L;vy and Bernard Picart, which also are represented in the exhibition. Many items on display bear the evidence of their roles in Jewish life, including postcards with handwritten messages in French, German and English, and Haggadot (Passover prayer books), stained from use at the Seder table. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Power of print Mar 3, 2008
Spohrer, who bears a resemblance to Dutch post-impressionist master Vincent Van Gogh (and, yes, people tell him that), says his influences include the compelling images of artists Ben Shahn (1898-1969) and Antonio Frasconi (born in 1919). He also admires the landscapes of Gustave Baumann (1881-1971). (Fresno Bee)
Fine print guru talks about her life and art Sep 21, 2007
Cat s Cradle by Ben Shahn was one of Glaubinger s first prints ... One of her choices was a marvelous print by Ben Shahn called Cat s Cradle, in which a pair of hands is depicted playing the children s popular string game. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
Screen prints "If I" (1969), by Sister Corita (below left), and "Stop H Bomb Tests" (1960), by Ben Shahn ... Jumping to the '60s, a screen-printed Cubist-style poster by Ben Shahn urges a ban on hydrogen bomb testing. (Boston Globe -- Living)
