McCarthy Peace (poster)

1968

Ben Shahn

Artist, American, 1898 - 1969

Health Professions for McCarthy

Publisher, American, c. 1960s

Lincoln Graphics, New York

Printer, American, 20th century

An abstracted, brightly colored dove is at the center of this cream-white poster. The bird's form is outlined in black and its body roughly filled in with horizontal stripes in shades of coral and garnet red, pale and aquamarine blue, and smoky pale purple. The bird faces our left with its beak parted and its wings ruffled. The word “McCARTHY” is prominently printed at the top in black, while the word PEACE” is in bold, all caps in blue at the bottom. The artist signed the poster to the right of the dove, “Ben Shahn.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color offset lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Andrew Robison

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 96.84 × 63.82 cm (38 1/8 × 25 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.22.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 194

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Andrew Robison, Washington, DC; gift to NGA 2017

Associated Names

Bibliography

1973

  • Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1973, p. 154, no. 194.

Inscriptions

printed lower right in black: Ben Shahn

Wikidata ID

Q77259165

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