Joseph Hirsch "Reflections" New CUSTOM FRAMED Art Ash Can School Fisherman

Description: Joseph Hirsch"Reflections"This art print is:NEW CUSTOM FRAMED in a dark brown frameDouble matted in Cream/ SageHand SignedLimited EditionFramed Size: 19.5" x 31"Image Size: 9" x 21"Ready to hangInterested in different framing? Contact us!FRAMING ALONE IS WORTH OVER $250!Joseph Hirsch (1910–1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. 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.Hirsch also worked as a commercial artist and portrait painter.He produced dozens of lithographs, most based on his paintings, and described himself as a "full-time painter and a Sunday lithographer." Among his popular lithographs were Lunch Hour (1942), depicting a black youth asleep at his school desk; a closeup of a black man and an old white man sitting side by side at a lunch counter; and a color lithograph of the Boston Tea Party, published at the time of the 1976 Bicentennial The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation commissioned him in the late-1960s to create illustrations documenting the construction of Soldier Creek Dam (completed 1974), in Wasatch County, Utah.In his mature period, the 1960s and 1970s, Hirsch used a series of layered planes to compose a painting. Typically, these planes were parallel to the picture plane, with depth suggested by receding figures, rather than through lines of perspective. These paintings appear to be snapshots, capturing people in mid-action, not posing.Hirsch taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1947–48), the American Art School of New York University (1948-49), the National Academy of Design (1959–67), and the Art Students League of New York (1967–81)He was an artist-in-residence at the University of Utah (Summer 1959, 1975), Utah State University (year),Dartmouth College(Spring 1966) and Brigham Young University (1971)McCarthyism[edit]Hirsch was a founding member of Artists Equity, an organization modeled on Actors Equity, created to protect the rights of visual artists. It began in New York City in 1949, and grew to have chapters in dozens of U.S. cities. Hirsch was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study and work in Paris for a year, and he and his family arrived in France in September 1949.Even prior to Senator Joseph McCarthy's notorious February 1950 declaration that hundreds of known Communists were working in the U.S. State Department, the political climate in the United States was becoming hostile to those holding leftist views. Hirsch's Fulbright was renewed, but, as the end of its second year approached, he sold his house on Cape Cod to extend his family's stay in Paris. Expatriate Hirsch was later denounced as a Communist sympathizer, and public pressure was put on the Dallas Museum of Art to remove his award-winning Nine Men (1949) from an exhibition. Instead, the museum moved Nine Men, a painting by Diego Rivera, and one by George Grosz into a separate room, and asked museum goers to judge the Communist influence for themselves. The Hirschs did not return to the United States until 1955.Hirsch exhibited regularly in the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He exhibited seventeen canvases in a 1942 Museum of Modern Art exhibition—Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States (MoMA, January 21 to March 8, 1942), and exhibited in eleven other MoMA exhibitions. One of Hirsch's war paintings was included in the Artists for Victory exhibition, that began at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in late 1944, and toured the country.PAFA awarded Hirsch the 1934 Walter Lippincott Prize (best figure painting exhibited by an American artist) for Masseur Tom, a life-size full-length portrait of an imposing Turkish masseur.Masseur Tom also won him the 1934 Third Hallgarten Prize (best figure painting exhibited by an American artist under age 30) from NAD.The public voted Two Men(1937) the best contemporary American painting exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair A depiction of a black man and a white man having an amicable disagreement, Two Men is in the permanent collection of MoMA. The Library of Congress twice awarded him the Joseph Pennell Purchase Prize for lithography: 1944 for Lunch Hour,and 1945 for The Confidence.[ The Art Institute of Chicago awarded him the 1951 Blair Prize for Nine Men. The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its first annual exhibition in 1951, and awarded him Fourth Prize for Nine Men, the only non-abstract painting among the winners. The Childe Hassam Purchase Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Letters purchased four of his paintings, beginning with The Burden in 1955.The Crucifixion won him the Butler Institute of American Art's 1964 purchase prize, and the painting remains BIAA's permanent collection. NAD awarded him the Altman Prize (best figure painting exhibited by an American artist) three times: 1959 for The Book, 1966 for [work], and 1978 for Tuba.The Carnegie Museum of Art awarded him the 1947 Carnegie Second Prize for The Iceman,and the 1968 Carnegie Prize for [work].Hirsch was runner-up for the 1935 Rome Prize.He received two Guggenheim Fellowships (1942 & 1943),and two Fulbright Fellowships (1949 & 1950).[He was elected an Associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1954, and a full Academician in 1958. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1967.He was a member (and later a trustee) of the Century Association.

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