In the late-1940s, Lou Hirshman, once a student at the precursor of the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, became one of its teachers – and later its faculty director. We reprint a Fleisher […]

In 1962, an engineer and struggling inventor with the unlikely name of Ermal Cleon Frazer went on a picnic with his family. A secret alcoholic, Frazer had brought a six-pack of Budweiser but forgotten a […]

This is the first in an irregular series of posthumous interviews that Hirshman’s son conducted with his father more than three decades after the artist’s death in 1986. SON: I appreciate you taking the time […]

You are walking by a stream, look down, see something shiny and fish it out – it’s a diamond. You are suddenly rich because you have found this “found object.” Like that diamond, a dime […]

In May 2015, Stephen Kroninger, a well-known American collagist, gave a talk at New York’s prestigious Society of Illustrators titled “12 Legendary Caricaturists You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of.” Among them was Lou Hirshman. The presentation […]

HIRSHMAN ON YouTube: This is a wonderful presentation given by illustrator Stephen Kroninger in May 2015 at New York’s Society of Illustrators on “12 Legendary Caricaturists You‘ve, (probably), Never Heard Of”.  The segment on Hirshman starts […]

Here is part 2: The blog Unexpected Philadelphia is publishing a two-part series on one of the city’s own – Lou Hirshman, an artist who lived nearly his entire life in the City of Brotherly […]

The blog Unexpected Philadelphia is publishing a two-part series on one of the city’s own – Lou Hirshman, an artist who lived nearly his entire life in the City of Brotherly Love. Part One looks […]

Upon entering Lou Hirshman’s Philadelphia row house in the mid-1970s, a first-time guest was bemused by the livingroom walls where several artworks hung. He had heard Hirshman was a local artist of note – but […]