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Morris Hirshfield
Morris Hirshfield (1872–1946) was a Polish-American painter. LifeHirshfield was born in Poland, but emigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen. He found employment at a women's coat factory; later, he founded a business with his brother, first manufacturing women's coats, then women's slippers. He retired in 1935 due to failing health.[1] Hirshfield began to paint in 1937. He was soon championed by gallerist Sidney Janis, who had a great interest in self-taught artists. Janis included some of Hirshfield's works in a 1939 exhibition, Contemporary Unknown American Painters, and a 1942 book, They Taught Themselves: American Primitive Painters of the 20th Century.[2] His painting found favor in surrealist circles; he was lauded by André Breton,[3] and was a participant in the first American surrealist exhibition, First Papers of Surrealism, in 1942.[2] He received a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943.[1] The show occasioned some negative criticism; Art Digest referred to Hirshfield as "The Master of Two Left Feet",[4] and the bad press the show received figured into the demotion of MoMA's director, Alfred H. Barr Jr.[2] Hirshfield died in New York City in 1946.[5] Work Only 77 works were created by Hirshfield during his career.[3] His heavily patterned work, featuring women or animals, is often reminiscent of textiles, perhaps as a legacy of his first career.[2] Exhibitions[6]
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