![]() ![]() During World War II, Joseph Hirsch took part in the war effort, as an artist war correspondent, recording significant battles and events. ![]() ![]() He participated in the Works Project Administration in the easel painting division, with occasional work in the mural division, where he painted murals in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Building and the Municipal Court. Hirsch studied at the Philadelphia Museum School, with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Mass., and with George Luks in New York. Joseph Hirsch was born on Apin Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hirsch is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney in New York the National Gallery, the Corcoran and the Hirshhorn in Washington the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and in many major collections in the United States. But anything goes does not accord with the more discriminating ethics of our civilized code which rules out what is socially destructive.'' Today, this is unthinkable, in the delightful art world where, excepting censorship, anything goes. Hirsch wrote: ''I believe that some day the fabric of art will be threaded with morality, enabling us to distinguish evil from good. American, 1910-1981 Joseph Hirsch was a member of the American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters and a well-known realistic artist who came to national attention as a muralist for the Federal Works Progress Administration in the 1930's. ![]()
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