Project Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ben Shahn papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.13 Linear feet (Boxes 25-26; OVs 36-37, 42)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.shahben, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Files are arranged chronologically. This bulk of this series has been scanned with the exception of negatives and some oversized blueprints and plans.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Project files document approximately twenty-one of Shahn's commissions. Some projects are more fully documented than others with files containing correspondence tracing the evolution and execution of a project, including some letters from Shahn, in addition to proposals, contracts, scattered notes and sketches, blueprints, specifications, financial and printed material, and photographs. However, some projects listed here were ultimately never executed or are represented by only a few items such as receipts, specifications, and photographs. The series includes files for some of Shahn's most important mural commissions such as those for the Jersey Homesteads community center, the Bronx Central Post Office, and the Social Security building in Washington D.C. 2018 addition includes a drawing for the "Great State of Wisconsin" mural project.

Files documenting the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Roosevelt, New Jersey, include contact prints of the memorial's designer, Shahn's son Jonathan Shahn, and his portrait bust of Roosevelt, in addition to a photograph of Ben Shahn at the dedication ceremony for the memorial.