Bernarda Bryson Shahn was an American painter and lithographer. She also wrote and illustrated children's books including The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh. The artist Ben Shahn was her "life companion" and they married in 1969, shortly before his death.
Bernarda Bryson Shahn in 1960
Printing the lithograph Stranded Mines in the Resettlement Administration's Special Skills Division studio in Washington, D.C. (September 1936)
Resettlement Administration poster by Bernarda Bryson Shahn (c. 1936)
Ben Shahn was an 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.
Ben Shahn
Photograph of a sailor taken by Shahn in Jackson Square, New Orleans, 1935
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) poster (1946)
Shahn's untitled fresco for the Jersey Homesteads in May 1938, shortly after it was completed