He taught at the Chicago Art Institute, the American Art School, University of Utah, and had a significant tenure at the Art Students League in New York. He also won many awards, among them were a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, the Walter Lippincott Prize, First Prize at the New York World's Fair (1939), the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1942, 1943), and the Fulbright Fellowship (1949). In 1954 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1958.
Early in his career, Joseph Hirsch was introduced to the movement of Social Realism through George Luks, who was one of "The Eight". This group of painters, at the beginning of the century, chose to depict ordinary and everyday scenes. From this movement stemmed the Social Realism genre of the 1920s and 1930s.
Particularly during the Great Depression, social consciousness, and commentary were important components of the movement, dictating subject matter. Social commentary was the backbone for the majority of Joseph Hirsch's paintings. Although Social Realist painters often used specific themes, there was no specific style that all the painters followed (except realism). In his mature period, the 1960s and 1970s, Hirsch used a series of layered planes to compose the painting. Often, there are a series of two-dimensional zones in which the figures reside.
Typically, these planes are frontally oriented towards the viewer of the painting. Depth is suggested by layering of planes and the figures contained within, rather than through perspective. These paintings appear to be snapshots, capturing people in mid-action, not posing. Hirsch's works are part of the permanent collections in. Navy Art Collection, NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER, WASHINGTON DC.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA. Butler Institute of Fine Art, Youngstown OH. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas TX.
Library of Congress, Washington DC. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The Army Center of Military History, Washington DC. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. Montgomery museum of fine art, Montgomery, AL. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. The item "Joseph Hirsch Philadelphia Lithograph Father & Son African American AAA Signed" is in sale since Wednesday, August 2, 2017.This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints". The seller is "4636al" and is located in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
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