Portrait of Lincoln

Portrait of Lincoln  is an original artwork realized by  Ben Shahn in 1955.

Original print on paper. Dedication, signature and date on the lower right: " For Titina Maselli, Ben Shahn, Febbraio 18 1955 ".

Good conditions, except for a small sign of tape on the lower left margin.

Very fresh artwork, representing the portrait of the American President Abraham Lincoln realized by Ben Shahn .

Ben Shahn (Kovno, 1898 - New York, 1969) was an American painter, photographer and designer of Lithuanian origins. He exhibited his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1954. In 1984, the Japanese magazine Idea placed him among the thirty most influential artists of the twentieth century. Ben Shahn worked on social and political issues throughout his artistic life. From 1935, he worked as a photographer with Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange in the Farm Security Administration and documented people's living and working conditions in the American countryside during the years of the Great Depression.