Love and Joy about Letters by Ben Shahn
First edition. An advance copy, stated.
Grossman, New York, November 18, 1963
Monochrome and color artworks and posters plates in 11” x 14” oblong folio with Illustrated boards. Hebrew and English calligraphy and lettering in a variety of styles. An evocation of Ben Shahn early years.
Born in Lithuania, Ben Shahn immigrated to the United States in 1906 as a child. After elementary school, he was apprenticed to a lithographer, but studied biology at New York University. Shahn later changed course, studying at the Art Students League and, in 1925, at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Upon return in 1929, he worked as a photographer for the Farm Security Administration in 1935 - 1938. Shahn experimented with silk screening and created magazine illustrations and advertisements.
Ben Shahn (American, 1898 - 1969)

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