Artist: Joseph Hirsch (American, 1910-1981)
Title: Lunch Hour
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Date: 1942
Dimensions: 9″ x 11 3/4″
Location in Library: Fourth floor
Media: Lithograph; works on paper
Owner: The Brooklyn College Library Collection. © Artist’s Estate
Description:
A powerfully expressive draftsman and painter, Hirsch depicted people in ordinary, everyday scenes. In this lithograph, which was the artist’s first, Hirsch’s father, a noted Philadelphia surgeon, posed for the sleeping figure. Hirsch then transformed his father’s figure into a portrait of an African-American youth. Hirsch commented in 1942 that “a re-affirmation by today’s artist of his faith in the common man will be as natural as was the emphasis by El Greco on his faith in the Church.”
Related Websites
– Joseph Hirsch at the Navy Art Collection
