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Joseph Hirsch

Joseph Hirsch

Artist

Social Realism

Representation

None documented

12

Institutional Exhibitions

15

Works in Collection

22

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Movements

• Social Realism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Around the Automobile

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965–1966

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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965

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Recent Painting U.S.A.: The Figure

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1962

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America Seen: Between The Wars

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1961

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American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Why this artist matters now

Joseph Hirsch was an American painter and printmaker known for figurative works that documented working-class life and social conditions in postwar America. His compositions, rendered in oil and lithography, focused on laborers, urban scenes, and moments of quiet dignity among ordinary people. Active from the 1930s through the 1980s, Hirsch's direct representational style and humanistic outlook positioned his work outside the abstraction that dominated mid-century American art.

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Artworks (15)

The Boston Tea Party

1976 · lithograph

Platemark: 48.3 x 71.1 cm (19 x 28 in.); Sheet: 58.1 x 88.6 cm (22 7/8 x 34 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

1975 · portfolio of 12 color prints comprised of six lithographs, three screenprints, two lithograph and screenprints, and one screenprint with collage additions

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Boston Tea Party from Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

The Boston Tea Party from Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence

1975 · Lithograph from a portfolio of six lithographs, four screenprints (one with collage additions), and two lithograph and screenprints

composition (irreg.): 27 15/16 × 19 1/8" (71 × 48.6 cm); sheet: 34 7/8 × 22 15/16" (88.6 × 58.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1962 · Oil on canvas

13 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (33.7 x 41.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1961 · lithograph

Sheet: 54 x 32 cm (21 1/4 x 12 5/8 in.); Image: 40 x 22 cm (15 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1961 · lithograph

Sheet: 43.2 x 33.2 cm (17 x 13 1/16 in.); Image: 37 x 28 cm (14 9/16 x 11 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

1958 · Oil on canvas

49 3/4 x 62 3/4 in. (126.4 x 159.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1949 · Lithograph, printed in black

Sheet 25 3/4 x 19 3/4" (65.5 x 50.1 cm) Comp. 20 3/4 x 15 3/4" (52.7 x 40.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US