Word: hirshfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before he died of a heart attack, Primitive Hirshfield was full of high hopes for his next picture, an Adam and Eve. Said he: "It is going to be so outstanding that I don't need any animals...
...owned a million-dollar-a-year business, but he was 65, and knew that he was too sick to run it any longer. So Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield gave up the E. Z. Walk Mfg. Co. (boudoir slippers), as he had once given up his cloak & suit business. He was free to paint at last...
...ever taught him how to paint, but in the remaining nine years of his ailing life Morris Hirshfield turned out 72 painfully detailed paintings, mostly sexless nudes and gaudy peacocks and quail. Before he died last summer, he had been given two one-man shows. Last week, posthumously, he had a third. It gave Amateur Hirshfield the distinction, rare among painters, of having exhibited every picture he had ever painted...
...worst blunder," a "combination of preciosity and of the hunting down of butterflies with the aid of caterpillar tractors." His simple compositions seemed frozen into place by the fussy discipline of an old man. But to a public weary of modern art's chaotic ugliness, Hirshfield's childlike craft and gay colors were refreshing. Picasso said, just like that: "He's a great artist...
...Hirshfield also had a high regard for his own work. He painted ten hours a day, every day. His work was as doggedly patterned as herringbone cloth. He never used a model for his nudes, explaining that at his age he "couldn't very well bring a nude woman in and paint her. It wouldn't look right." Collector Sidney Janis, Hirshfield's discoverer, thinks that Stage Beauties with Angels (see cut) grew out of a burlesque-show memory. Hirshfield was always having model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public...