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Illustration from "The Shape of Content" by Ben Shahn Random House/Vintage Books 1957 Ben Shahn, Bad Drawings, Jewish Art, Love Illustration, The Shape, Figurative Art, American Artists, Book Covers, No. 2

Recently a friend who shares my passion for illustration sent a note. He'd been perusing one of those massive volumes that collect and showcase "some of today's hottests young illustrators." In his opinion (and I have tremendous respect for this particular friend's opinion) he thought it was crap. Full of "faux naïve stuff, or just plain bad drawing." This is a complaint I hear often - both in the comments section of this blog and from (commercial) artist friends I respect and admire. "What…

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Until December 15, 2019. Ben Shahn: For the Sake of a Single Verse. Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI marquette.edu/haggerty A portfolio of twenty-four lithographs created by artist Ben Shahn illustrate a select passage from Rainer Maria Rilke’s only novel, “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge” (1910).  Image: Ben Shahn, For the Sake of a Single Verse (detail), 1969, Lithograph, 98.31.5, Gift of Anonymous Donor, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University. Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Jewish Art, Art Google, Art Market, American Artists, Art Museum, Printmaking, Sake

Until December 15, 2019. Ben Shahn: For the Sake of a Single Verse. Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI marquette.edu/haggerty A portfolio of twenty-four lithographs created by artist Ben Shahn illustrate a select passage from Rainer Maria Rilke’s only novel, “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge” (1910). Image: Ben Shahn, For the Sake of a Single Verse (detail), 1969, Lithograph, 98.31.5, Gift of Anonymous Donor, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University.

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