Mine Disaster

Arts of the Americas

1948

Ben Shahn
American, born Lithuania, 1898–1969

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Ben Shahn
Title: Mine Disaster
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1948
Medium: Tempera on paper mounted to canvas on plywood
Inscriptions: signature l.r.
Dimensions: 61.2 × 76.4 cm (24 1/8 × 30 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art
Reference Number: 1948.77

San Francisco, California Palace of Legion of Honor, Jan. 1949.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, Oct. 13–Dec. 11, 1949, no. 177.
Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, 62nd Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Paintings, Jan. 1–Feb. 1, 1950, no. 23.
IN, Fort Wayne Art Museum, Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Commemorating the Opening of the Fort Wayne Art Museum, Sept. 24–Oct. 31, 1950, cat. 26.
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition in Honor of Ben Shahn, Nov. 8–Dec. 6, 1953.
Iowa Memorial Union, State University of Iowa School of Fine Arts, Fifteenth Annual Fine Arts Festival: Paintings by American Masters, June 17–July 31, 1953, no. 27.
Lake Forest, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 36.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
Albion, Albion College, The Eye Looks Outward and Inward, Mar. 14–Apr. 4, 1965.
New York, Jewish Museum, Ben Shahn Retrospective, Oct–Dec, 1976.

Downtown Gallery, New York, 1948; Gifted to Art Institute from Society of Contemporary Art, 1948.

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