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BEN SHAHN Mine Building.
Screenprint with hand coloring in watercolor, 1956. 416x724 mm; 16 3/8x28 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of fewer than 100 (Prescott cites 63 known impressions). Signed in red ink, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce print with strong colors.
During the Great Depression, Shahn (1898-1969) was commissioned by the WPA to create murals and worked with the RA to design posters and pamphlets, but he was also hired as a part-time staff photographer for the FSA, due to a recommendation from the celebrated American photographer Walker Evans. (Shahn's entrée to photography was a studio space shared with Evans in 1929.) Shahn traveled across rural America photographing the plight of the communities there and capturing the strength of will of their residents. Prescott 22.
