Ben Goldstein letters
name: label: Creator
content: Goldstein, Ben
label: Names
content: Becker, Maurice, 1889-1975
topic: label: Occupation
content: Cartoonists
label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists
label: Occupation
content: Lithographers
label: Topic
content: Social problems in art
label: Topic
content: Social realism
label: Topic
content: Prisoners as artists
label: Topic
content: Political cartoons
label: Topic
content: Politics in art
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1975 by Ben Goldstein.
creator: label: Creator
content: Goldstein, Ben
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ben Goldstein is a collector of graphic and political art, and an exhibits organizer; New York, N.Y. Maurice Becker was a graphic artist, cartoonist, and painter.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Items (linear ft. (on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goldben
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 3957 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sixty-four letters from Maurice Becker to Ben Goldstein, apparently in response to Goldstein's inquiries related to organizing an art exhibition with some emphasis on the work of artists associated with MASSES and LIBERATOR, in which Becker describes some of the art works he would be willing to sell. The political circumstances and intent of the art works is occasionally detailed. Most thoroughly described in this context is a series of lithographs produced by Becker when he was imprisoned in Leavenworth as a conscientious objector in 1918.