Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 9, 1903 – December 13, 2004) was an American painter and lithographer. She also wrote and illustrated children's books including The Zoo of Zeus and Gilgamesh. She was the wife of renowned artist Ben Shahn.
She met her future husband during a trip to New York in 1932 she took to interview Diego Rivera, whom Shahn was assisting in the production of his Rockefeller Center murals.[1] Both of them worked for the Depression-era Resettlement Administration, later part of the Farm Security Administration. In 1939, they produced a set of 13 murals inspired by Walt Whitman's poem I See America Working and installed at the United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex.[2] She continued painting throughout her life, and hosted gallery exhibits from the time her husband died in 1969, to well in her 90s. She died at her home in Roosevelt, New Jersey at the age of 101.[3]
See also
- The Vanishing American Frontier: Bernarda Bryson Shahn and her historical lithographs created for the Resettlement Administration of FDR, a catalogue of the artist's lithographs, drawings, and poster published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition curated by Jake Milgram Wien, 1995.
References
- ^ Fitzgerald, Jean. "A Finding Aid to the Bernarda Bryson Shahn Papers, 1872-2004". Archives of American Art. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
- ^ Donald J. Framberger, Joan R. Olshansky, and Elizabeth Spencer-Ralph (September 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bronx Central Annex-U.S. Post Office". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Fox, Margalit. "Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Painter, Dies at 101", The New York Times, December 16, 2004. Accessed February 14, 2011. "Bernarda Bryson Shahn, the widow of the painter Ben Shahn, who won her own recognition as an artist late in life, died on Sunday at her home in Roosevelt, N.J., her son, Jonathan Shahn, said. She was 101."
External links
- Comrades in Art: Bernarda Bryson
- A Finding Aid to the Bernarda Bryson Shahn Papers, 1872-2004, bulk 1904-2004,in the Archives of American Art: Jean Fitzgerald
- Oral history interview with Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 1983 Apr. 29: Archives of American Art
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