Litho by Joseph Hirsch, clown reading news, c1925
Lithograph by Joseph Hirsch, clown reading news, c1925
Joseph Hirsch
(Source: Wiki) Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Painting:22.5 inches 18.5 inches, 17 inches x 13 inches without frame. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice.
His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
In the late 1930s, Hirsch worked in Philadelphia as an artist in the easel painting division of the Works Project Administration. He painted murals for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Office Building at 2113-27 South Street; for the Family Court Building at 1801 Vine Street; and for the Benjamin Franklin High School at Broad & Green Streets (now demolished).
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Lithograph by Joseph Hirsch, clown reading news, c1925
Joseph Hirsch
(Source: Wiki) Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Painting:22.5 inches 18.5 inches, 17 inches x 13 inches without frame. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice.
His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
In the late 1930s, Hirsch worked in Philadelphia as an artist in the easel painting division of the Works Project Administration. He painted murals for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Office Building at 2113-27 South Street; for the Family Court Building at 1801 Vine Street; and for the Benjamin Franklin High School at Broad & Green Streets (now demolished).
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