Ben Shahn
（重定向自Benjamin Shahn）
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![Photograph of a sailor taken by Shahn in Jackson Square, New Orleans, 1935.](/Images/godic/202412/24/Ben_Shahn10443.jpg")
![Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) poster (1946)](/Images/godic/202412/24/Poster_RegtoVote0443.jpg")
![Detail from](/Images/godic/202412/24/Sacco-Vanzetti-010443.jpg")
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.