Looking for the Painter Behind the Propagandist From: Forward | Date: January 28, 1994| Author: Joel Lewis | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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01-28-1994

Looking for the Painter Behind the Propagandist.

In the early '50s, Ben Shahn made a trip from his home in Roosevelt, N.J., to pay homage to poet William Carlos Williams, who was a practicing physician in the North Jersey suburb borough of Rutherford. Shahn gave Williams a painting inspired by the doctor's epic poem-in-progress, "Paterson." Williams accepted the gift graciously and hung it in his living room. A short while later, he moved it ...

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