![Untitled [The plough and hoe and such'll keep knowledge out of a person's head.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9881/preview)
![Untitled [The plough and hoe and such'll keep knowledge out of a person's head.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9881/full)
Untitled [The plough and hoe and such'll keep knowledge out of a person's head.]
Maker
Ben Shahn
(American, born in Lithuania, 1898 - 1969)
Date1948
MediumPen and ink on wove paper
DimensionsFramed: 13 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (34.9 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leon and Marian Despres
CopyrightCopyright managed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object number2008.11.2
Status
Not on view![Untitled [...drawing rooms and butler's pantries now rented out as "apartments".]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9886/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...he got his furniture out of storage, and that night he and his wife hired a taxi and took their six young children there.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9887/thumbnail)
![Untitled [They moved to the Delta, land of milk and honey.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9880/thumbnail)
![Untitled [They rarely attended school more than four or five months a year.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9882/thumbnail)
![Untitled [She was born in June and she was beautiful.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9883/thumbnail)
![Untitled [We were anxious to get up North where they had the opportunity to go to school and all these privileges...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9884/thumbnail)
![Untitled [How can a black man disappear?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9885/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...and Velvena was playing at studying though she was only four.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9888/thumbnail)
![Untitled [I cannot understand how she escaped....It was a miracle. The lord was with her.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9889/thumbnail)
![Untitled [Paper was made to burn, coal and rags, not people. People wasn't made to burn.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9890/thumbnail)
![Untitled [When I got to summing up my life I saw my life was unhappy. I was in grief and sorrow.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9891/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...looked at the pictures of the dead children.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9892/thumbnail)