Joseph Hirsch ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Joseph Hirsch: Self-portrait

1910 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1981 New York City. Known for: Social realism painting, modernist figure-genre view, military scenes.

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Joseph Hirsch was a painter, muralist, illustrator, and printmaker who was born and educated in Philadelphia. He attended the School of Industrial Art between 1928 and 1931, and in 1932, went to New York to study with George Luks. He completed several murals in Philadelphia including Football, Integration, Beginnings of Early Unionism, and Adoption. As a pictorial war correspondent during World War II, Hirsch made about seventy-five paintings and drawings between 1943 and 1944 in the South Pacific, Africa, and Italy. Hirsch once said that he wanted his work to reveal his beliefs but never turned to propaganda, as so many artists of his time. He did, however, portray people as heroes in a deeply humanistic, positive manner, using an almost... Read full biography

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Window in Spring

Type:Painting

Year:1948

Size:44.00" x 24.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed

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Signed Joseph Hirsch, lower right. Ex. Collection of Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co., Kalamazoo, MI. Exhibited: Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Painting in the United States, 1948" Oct 14-Dec 12, 1948. Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Art Center, "A Century of Caring" May 18-Aug 3, 1986.

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