Artist

Joseph Hirsch

born Philadelphia, PA 1910-died New York City 1981
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Joseph Hirsch, 1959, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001699
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Biography

Realist painter whose work was often socially oriented and imbued with humanism. During World War II, he served as an artist-correspondent for the U.S. government.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (7 items)

Mary Cassatt, The Caress, 1902, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1911.2.1
The Caress
Date1902
oil on canvas
On view
Mary and Child
chromolithographic reproduction
Not on view
Henry Wolf, Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, 1905, photomechanical wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.220
Mother and Child
Date1905
photomechanical wood engraving on paper
Not on view