Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Jersey City Museum, Sept. 12-December 16, 2001.

"A modern painter discusses meaning and form in contemporary painting and offers advice to aspiring artists."--

Beginning in the thirties, he created bold and powerful paintings of often controversial subjects, and in particular his portraits of Sacco and Vanzetti caused

A survey of the long and varied career of the great American Social Realist painter Ben Shahn, featuring striking reproductions of paintings, begins with his we