Some trees are inexplicably knocked over in the background of one of his paintings which shows a man with enormous hands playing the titular instrument.  
Some trees are inexplicably knocked over in the background of one of his paintings which shows a man with enormous hands playing the titular instrument.  In addition to Blind Accordion Player, he depicted a man with one leg ascending the titular structure by the side of a ruined building in The Red Stairway.  He was the first painter to give Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton lectures on the arts, which were published as The Shape of Content.  He depicted a group of stunt cyclists in Epoch, while his more overtly political works include 1947's Death of a Miner.  During World War II, he painted the mural in Washington's Social Security Building.  Born in Lithuania, his works in the 1930s include a series of 15 paintings of Tom Mooney, but he is better known for a group of 23 paintings of two immigrants who were executed.  FTP, name this artist of The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Some trees are inexplicably knocked over in the background of one of his paintings which shows a man with enormous hands playing the titular instrument.  
Ben Shahn