Attributed to Ben Shahn, no coa, private collection, medium: oil, measurements: 26"HX33"W framed, mint condition Biography: Ben Shahn was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content. During the war years of 1942–43, Shahn worked for the Office of War Information (OWI), but his pieces lacked the preferred patriotism of the day and only two of his posters were published.His art's anti-war sentiment found other forms of expression in a series of paintings from 1944 to 1945, such as Death on the Beach, which depicts the desolation and loneliness of war.In 1945 he painted Liberation about the Liberation of Paris which depicts children playing in the rubble. He also did a series, called Lucky Dragon, about the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (literally, Lucky Dragon No. 5), the Japanese fishing boat caught in the Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb blast. As of 2012, an important part of this series is in the collections of Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art.