Description: Joseph Hirsch signed print Harmonica Player. This nice print has just been framed in an acid free matte. Total size is 19x25 and sight size is 9x11. Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981) began his serious art studies at 17 when he was awarded a four-year scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art by the city of Philadelphia. This was followed by a period of study with George Luks in New York and later with Henry Hensche in Provincetown. In 1934, when Joseph Hirsch was only 23, he won the coveted Walter Lippincott Award at the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for the “best figure painting in oil by an American citizen.” Hirsch followed this award with the prestigious Woolley Fellowship that provided for a year of study in Paris. At the 1939 New York World’s Fair, by public ballot, the Philadelphia native was awarded first choice for the best painting in the Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. In 1949, he also received a Fulbright Fellowship, which allowed him to go back to Paris. There he met or interacted with fellow Americans Paul Strand, Robert Gwathmey, and Joseph Floch. Hirsch’s murals decorated several Philadelphia public buildings. They depicted “Football,” “Early Unionism,” and “Adoption.” His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery and others. As a social realist and humanist, Hirsch frequently portrayed heroic images of ordinary people doing everyday tasks. For Hirsch, all paintings were a celebration of life and everything within the realm of living circumstance was a font of inspiration of almost equal measure.
Price: 175 USD
Location: Beckley, West Virginia
End Time: 2025-02-03T12:53:55.000Z
Shipping Cost: 35 USD
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