IF LOU’S CARICATURES COULD DUMP ON TRUMP
What would Hitler, Groucho, Kennedy and Castro say about Donald Trump?
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Trump-less Hirshman: The Politics of the Artist
Would Lou Hirshman, were he still alive today, have ever done a caricature of Donald J. Trump? The answer is no. For at least three reasons. 1) Too easy: Although the 45th president of the US is (or was?) ripe for caricaturizing, Hirshman would undoubtedly have already considered Trump a caricature of himself – artificially […]
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Louis in the Sky with Diamonds: LOU and LSD
A flagpole penis. A shrink’s couch in a pocket. A haloed spider. Did LSD lead Lou Hirshman to abandon caricaturizing the famous? Was his second period a psychedelic trip? Did he make high art or “high” art? In this FICTIONAL, TONGUE-IN-CHEEK story, Hirshman swims with dolphins to the other side of the other ocean.
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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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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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