Lou Hirshman

General

26. May 2017

Art, General, History, Newspaper, sketch, Stories

THE SLAPPING BALLERINA WHO WASN’T HITLER

INTRO: In 1938 when Catherine Littlefield, the force behind the Philadelphia Ballet, got wind that Lou Hirshman had done her in an unflattering caricature, she hunted him down, tore up the sketch and gave him a resounding slap. She also gave the press something to write about. The star of the show? Hirshman’s sore cheek. […]

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3. May 2017

Art, General, History, Stories

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LOU HIRSHMAN and his home away from home

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 blog post, in which the revered art school, administered by the city’s Museum of Art, rediscovers one of its own. […]

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