Shahn

"Grace was a fun, friendly, kind-hearted and passionate individual who loved to make films and make people laugh," Shahn Devendran told Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald.

In 1957, the American artist Ben Shahn, a hero of Chase-Riboud’s, bought her first bronze sculpture, a work comprising a realist human form presented atop a complex abstract base.

Shahn, the relentless chronicler of American labor, was influenced by Rivera’s densely packed scenes.

In the early 1940s, the artist Ben Shahn created a painting for the Office of War Information with images depicting suppression, starvation, slavery, torture and murder.

Even though Ben Shahn and Dorothea Lange had died, their spouses – who had accompanied them on many of their photographic trips – were able to help.