num_pages: 48
description: An illustrated biography of Jewish artist and activist Ben ShahnThe first thing I can remember Ben said I drew. As an observant child growing up in Lithuania Ben Shahn yearns to draw everything he seesand after seeing his father banished by the Czar for demanding workers rights he develops a keen sense of justice too. So when Ben and the rest of his family make their way to America Ben brings both his sharp artistic eye and his desire to fight for whats right. As he grows he speaks for justice through his artby disarming classmates who bully him because hes Jewish by defying his teachers insistence that he paint beautiful landscapes rather than true stories by urging the US government to pass Depression-era laws to help people find food and jobs.
language: English
title: The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
publisher: Harry N. Abrams