- Artist/Maker:
- Ben Shahn
- Bio:
- American, b. Lithuania, 1898-1969
- Title:
- Maimonides
- Date:
- 1954
- Medium:
- Tempera on paper mounted on panel
- Dimensions:
- 35 1/2 × 26 1/2 in. (90.2 × 67.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Jacob and Bronka Weintraub
- Accession Number:
- 2002-29
- Copyright:
- © Estate of Ben Shahn/Licensed by _VAGA_, New York, N.Y.
Not On View
In addition to his highly political works of the 1950s, Ben Shahn frequently portrayed and celebrated Jewish figures who were models of ethical conduct. In this context, Maimonides, also known as the Rambam, the twelfth-century codifier of Jewish Law, author of the philosophical ethical treatise Guide to the Perplexed, and physician to the Sultan of Egypt, is a fitting subject for Shahn's painting.
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