Ink Drawing Man in Suit and Hat with Nude

Dimensions: H: 10.5, W: 8.0 IN

Provenance: Hinckley & Brohel Gallery Jonathan Shahn, Born 1938 has been making sculpture, drawings and prints of the human figure since the early 1960s. He teaches at the Art Students League in NYC. He has exhibited his work frequently, both in the United States and in Europe. His most recent one-man show in New York was in 2010 at Lori Bookstein Gallery. Mr. Shahn has taught at the Tyler School in Rome, Boston University, and the Maryland Institute, among others. The son of famed Social Realist artist Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the photographer/muralist who worked alongside Walker Evans and Diego Rivera, and his painter/illustrator wife. Both are credited with establishing Roosevelt as the arts community it became after the federal government’s failed effort to create farmsteads for New York City’s garment workers during the 1930s. Ben Shahn’s famous mural in the Roosevelt Public School depicts the escape from New York’s dark tenements and sweatshops to Louis Kahn-designed, light-filled homes and cooperative farms and a factory out in the country.

Exhibitions Go Figure, George Billis Gallery, New York Family Business, Susan Teller Gallery, New York Disegno!, National Academy of Design Annual, New York Sculpture, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco (solo) Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA (solo) The Making of a Monument: Drawings, Maquettes, Models for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Jersey City Material Language: Small Scale Sculpture after 1950, Princeton University Museum, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ (solo) National Academy of Design Annual Smith College, Northhampton, MA (drawings) (solo) O’Hara Gallery, NYC Readers: Works from the Donald Oresman Collection, Grolier Club, NYC Real People: Six Artists, Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ The Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ (solo) Sculpture Center, NYC (solo)