Union Square

Bernarda Bryson, artist

1903–2004

Union Square, circa 1939

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: lithograph

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 521 x 356 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 1/2 x 14 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of the WPA Arts Project

Accession number: 0000.0615

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Centenarians

Bernarda Bryson met future husband and artist Ben Shahn while he was working as an assistant to Diego Rivera, whom Bryson interviewed in 1933. Bryson created prints for the Depression-era Resettlement Administration in the 1930s to document rural life. Lithographs from this series were published in 1995 as The Vanishing American Frontier. In 1939, she and a collaborator made a set of 13 murals entitled Resources of America inspired by Whitman's poem "I See America Working" at the United States Post Office-Bronx Central Annex. As a widow in her sixties, Shahn turned all her attention to painting. At 98, still vigorous, she worked every day.