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Years of Dust (Poster for the United States Resettlement Administration)
Ben Shahn American, born Lithuania
Not on view
Shahn was commissioned to create advertisements for the Resettlement Administration, a government agency that relocated impoverished people living in rural areas decimated during the Dust Bowl—a period of severe dust storms caused by drought and poor land management, exacerbated by the Depression.
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