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Hey, @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: I wanted to explain some of the changes I made. Several of the statements made on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation website are contradicted elsewhere. USBR has Hirsch as the winner of the Rome Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation has him as the 1st runner-up in 1935. USBR has him teaching at the American Art School, I have no idea what/where that was.
I don't know enough about copyright to say whether the works Hirsch painted under the WPA, Army and Navy are in the public domain or not. I added links to the works I could find online, and posted a low-res image of the Death of a Salesman poster. Re: the list of museums, I removed the ones with no original works, just copies of prints. A fine painter I didn't know. Glad you started this article. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:49, 12 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
Correcting some widely published misinfomation:
Hirsch did NOT win the 1935 Rome Prize (he was runner-up). Therefore, he did not study for 3 years at the American Academy in Rome.
Hirsch spent 5 years in France, but it was as a mature artist in the 1950s, not as a student in the 1930s.
Hirsch did NOT have a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art. He had a room to himself in MoMA's Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, but there were 17 other artists in the exhibition.
Hirsch did not win the Hassam Purchase Prize in 1967. The National Institute of Arts and Letters elected him a MEMBER in 1967. The Hassam Purchase Fund had already purchased paintings by him in 1955, 1961, 1962 and 1963.
Hirsch did not win the 1968 Carnegie Prize from the National Academy of Design. He won the 1968 Andrew Carnegie Prize from the Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh. (Anyone know what painting earned him the prize?)
