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instanceOf
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American artist
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graphic artist
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human
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muralist
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painter
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photographer
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social realist artist
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birthName
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Ben Shahn
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surface form: "Benjamin Shahn"
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countryOfBirth
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Lithuania
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Russian Empire
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countryOfCitizenship
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United States of America
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countryOfDeath
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United States of America
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dateOfBirth
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1898-09-12
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dateOfDeath
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1969-03-14
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educatedAt
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City College of New York
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National Academy of Design
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employer
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Farm Security Administration
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Office of War Information
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Works Progress Administration
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ethnicGroup
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Jewish
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familyName
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Shahn
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fieldOfWork
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graphic art
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illustration
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mural painting
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painting
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photography
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genre
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documentary photography
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political art
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social commentary art
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givenName
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Benjamin
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hasWorkInCollection
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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influenced
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American social realist painters
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influencedBy
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Diego Rivera
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European modernism
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languageSpoken
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English
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Yiddish
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mainSubject
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labor rights
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political protest
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social justice
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working-class life
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movement
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American social realism
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Modernism
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Social realism
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name
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Ben Shahn
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notableFor
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documentary photographs of American life
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paintings of working-class life during the Great Depression
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politically engaged murals
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notableWork
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Allegory of Labor
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Jersey Homesteads mural
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The Meaning of Social Security (mural)
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The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti
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occupation
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illustrator
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muralist
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painter
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photographer
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printmaker
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teacher
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placeOfBirth
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Kaunas
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Kovno
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placeOfDeath
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New York City
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positionHeld
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Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University
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art instructor at The New School for Social Research
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faculty member at Harvard University
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religion
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Judaism
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residence
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New York City
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spouse
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Bernarda Bryson Shahn
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