Ben Shahn

A mine disaster and those left behind

by Jessica T. Smith, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Ben Shahn, The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931-32, tempera and gouache on canvas mounted on composition board, 84 × 48 inches (Whitney Museum of American Art) — Shahn makes an not-so-subtle comparison between Christ and two Italians executed for a crime they didn’t commit.

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