Caricatures, Collages, Assemblages
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 was reviewed in the online publication “Forward”.
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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 two-thirds of the way through the two-hour talk at 1:17. […]
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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 Love. Part Two looks at Hirshman’s second main period – collages of everyday life rather than caricatures of the famous. […]
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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 at Hirshman’s early years, as well as his caricature period of the famous from Albert Einstein to John F. Kennedy. […]
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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 not specifically of caricatures and collages fashioned out of everyday objects: Albert Einstein with a wild mop of hair; duelers […]
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