Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born 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.

I love Ben Shahn’s Drawings, especially his line quality, the scratchiness and the sense of motion and immediacy. Here are some examples of his work. Every so often in my life I’d heard his name mentioned, but his work didn’t really catch my attention until a year ago when I read his book The Shape of Content. The illustrations in that book are great, and reading it prompted me to seek out more of his work.