BERNARDA BRYSON SHAHN (1903-2004)The artist/activist/author/teacher Bernarda Bryson was born in 1903. She was already an artist when, as a reporter, she visited New York in 1933 to interview Diego Rivera for the Ohio State Journal. Rivera was making a mural (now destroyed) for Rockefeller Center, and one of his assistants was the artist Ben Shahn (1898-1969), her future husband. Bryson and Shahn, bound together in their careers. They made murals, paintings, prints, and drawings, and raised their family in the New Deal town of Roosevelt, NJ.
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