The Boston Tea Party
Gift of the Lorillard Tobacco Co, NY
Catalogue
- Year
- 1976
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 48.3 x 71.1 cm (19 x 28 in.); Sheet: 58.1 x 88.6 cm (22 7/8 x 34 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- Joseph Hirsch
Artist

Joseph Hirsch was an American painter and printmaker known for figurative works that documented working-class life and social conditions in postwar America. His compositions, rendered in oil and lithography, focused on laborers, urban scenes, and moments of quiet dignity among ordinary people. Active from the 1930s through the 1980s, Hirsch's direct representational style and humanistic outlook positioned his work outside the abstraction that dominated mid-century American art.
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Record
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- Joseph Hirsch
- Year
- 1976
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 48.3 x 71.1 cm (19 x 28 in.); Sheet: 58.1 x 88.6 cm (22 7/8 x 34 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1976-528264
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


