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About this work

You see a tall, narrow sheet of paper covered in quick, dark lines—people in hats, faces, hands, and a few words scribbled like signs. Shahn made this the same year Flannery O’Connor published her short story *A Good Man Is Hard to Find*. The title is written on the museum label, but the painting doesn’t tell the story. Instead, it feels like notes for something bigger—sketches that never got erased. Look up gouache next—it’s paint that dries fast and looks flat, like chalk but brighter.