![Untitled [Paper was made to burn, coal and rags, not people. People wasn't made to burn.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9890/preview)
![Untitled [Paper was made to burn, coal and rags, not people. People wasn't made to burn.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9890/full)
Untitled [Paper was made to burn, coal and rags, not people. People wasn't made to burn.]
Maker
Ben Shahn
(American, born in Lithuania, 1898 - 1969)
Date1948
MediumPen and ink on wove paper, reworked with white pigment
DimensionsFramed: 13 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (34.9 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Leon and Marian Despres
Copyright© Estate of Ben Shahn/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Collections
Object number2008.11.11
Status
On view![Untitled [If they fixed it up, they'll soon be lined up here... People got no place to go.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9895/thumbnail)
![Untitled [She was born in June and she was beautiful.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9883/thumbnail)
![Untitled [How can a black man disappear?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9885/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...drawing rooms and butler's pantries now rented out as "apartments".]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9886/thumbnail)
![Untitled [I cannot understand how she escaped....It was a miracle. The lord was with her.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9889/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...looked at the pictures of the dead children.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9892/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...and I weakened down to the ground.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9893/thumbnail)
![Untitled [This was God fixed this. I had raised those children up and God knowed that vow I made to him...that these children was a generation to be raised up. God wasn't pleased what happened to them.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9894/thumbnail)
![Untitled [They moved to the Delta, land of milk and honey.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9880/thumbnail)
![Untitled [The plough and hoe and such'll keep knowledge out of a person's head.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9881/thumbnail)
![Untitled [They rarely attended school more than four or five months a year.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9882/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)