During the war years of 1942–43, Shahn worked for the Office of War Information (OWI), but his pieces lacked the preferred patriotism of the day and only two of his posters were published. His art's anti-war sentiment found other forms of expression in a series of paintings from 1944 to 1945, such as "Death on the Beach", which depicts the desolation and loneliness of war. In 1945 he painted "Liberation" about the Liberation of Paris which depicts children playing in the rubble.