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BEN SHAHN (1898-1969) WE WANT PEACE / REGISTER-VOTE. 1946. 41 1/4x27 inches, 105x68 1/2 cm. L.I.P. & B.A., New York. Condition B+ / B: minor splitting along vertical and horizontal folds; losses in top corners; minor tears at edges. Paper. Based on a painting entitled Hunger, this image was "used by the CIO in a voter registration drive. [And] it represents, perhaps, the best of Shahn's poster work. One cannot soon erase the memory of the hollow-eyed young face begging for peace. Nowhere is Shahn's genius for drawing more evident than in the thrust of the pleading hand [...] Using the image of this child in the context of an election campaign seems to say that in a democracy the first step toward healing the ravages of war is to excercise one's right to vote." (Prescott p. 132). Prescott 157, Images of an Era 5, Takashimaya 238.
