Years of Dust (Poster for the United States Resettlement Administration)

Ben Shahn American, born Lithuania

1937

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Shahn was commissioned to create advertisements for the Resettlement Administration, a government agency that relocated impoverished people living in rural areas decimated during the Dust Bowl—a period of severe dust storms caused by drought and poor land management, exacerbated by the Depression.

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Exhibition History

Title: Years of Dust (Poster for the United States Resettlement Administration)
Artist: Ben Shahn (American (born Lithuania), Kaunas 1898–1969 New York)
Date: 1937
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 37 7/8 × 25 in. (96.2 × 63.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer, 1947
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints