1. Joseph Hirsch was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher.
16 Facts About Joseph Hirsch
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Joseph Hirsch's works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
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Joseph Hirsch's version of The Crucifixion is a closeup view from behind, and focuses on the busy workman preparing to nail Jesus's hand to the cross.
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Joseph Hirsch taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the American Art School of New York University, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League of New York.
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Joseph Hirsch was an artist-in-residence at the University of Utah, Utah State University, Dartmouth College, and Brigham Young University.
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Joseph Hirsch was a founding member of Artists Equity, an organization modeled on Actors Equity, created to protect the rights of visual artists.
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Joseph Hirsch was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study and work in Paris for a year, and he and his family arrived in France in September 1949.
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Joseph Hirsch's Fulbright was renewed, but, as the end of its second year approached, he sold his house on Cape Cod to extend his family's stay in Paris.
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Expatriate Joseph Hirsch was later denounced as a Communist sympathizer, and public pressure was put on the Dallas Museum of Art to remove his award-winning Nine Men from an exhibition.
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Joseph Hirsch exhibited regularly in the annual exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
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Joseph Hirsch received two Guggenheim Fellowships, and two Fulbright Fellowships.
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Joseph Hirsch was elected an Associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1954, and a full Academician in 1958.
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Joseph Hirsch was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1967.
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Joseph Hirsch was a member of the Century Association.
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In 1938, Joseph Hirsch married fellow Philadelphian Ruth Schindler, a dancer who had trained under Martha Graham.
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The Joseph Hirsch family moved to France in 1949, and the couple divorced soon after their return to the United States in 1955.