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378    |qBenjamin Zwi 
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510 2  |wr|iEmployer:|aHarvard University 
510 1  |wr|iEmployer:|aUnited States.|bFarm Security 
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510 1  |wr|iEmployer:|aUnited States.|bResettlement 
       Administration 
510 2  |wr|iStudent at:|aNational Academy of Design (U.S.) (1828-
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510 2  |wr|iStudent at:|aCollege of the City of New York (1866-
       1926) 
670    Soby, J. T. Ben Shahn, 1947. 
670    Common man, mythic vision, 1998:|bCIP t.p. (Ben Shahn) 
       galley (Benjamin Zwi Shahn, b. Sept. 12, 1898 in Kovno 
       (Kaunas), Lithuania) 
670    Wikipedia, Apr. 2, 2008|b(Ben Shahn; b. Sept. 12, 1898; d.
       Mar. 14, 1969; Jewish-born American artist, muralist, 
       social activist, photographer and teacher) 
670    Wikipedia, 1 May 2019|b(Ben Shahn; Lithuanian-born 
       American artist; known for painting, illustration, graphic
       art, photography, writing; he; born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 
       then part of the Russian Empire; in 1906, family 
       immigrated to United States, settled in Williamsburg 
       section of Brooklyn, New York; first trained as a 
       lithographer in New York, graphic design; later prints and
       paintings often include combination of text and image; 
       pursued art at City College in 1921, then at National 
       Academy of Design; in May-June 1933, served as an 
       assistant to Diego Rivera while Rivera executed the 
       Rockefeller Center mural; during Great Depression, member 
       of photographic group at the Resettlement Administration 
       (RA) and successor, Farm Security Administration; roamed 
       and documented the American South together with his 
       colleagues Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, in social-
       documentary photography; also worked for RA and FSA as 
       graphic artist and painter, including fresco murals; 
       during World War II, paintings reflecting his anti-war 
       sentiment; in 1947, directed a summer session of School of
       the Museum of Fine Arts at Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield,
       Massachusetts;1961-1967, worked on the stained glass at 
       Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY; commercial artist for CBS, 
       Time, Fortune, and Harper's; joined Harvard as a Charles 
       Eliot Norton professor in 1956; published writings on art;
       social-realist vision; died in New York City) 
670    Hebrew Wikipedia, 2 May 2019|b(בן שאן = Ben Shan)