Franklin Riehlman | Hirshfield

MORRIS HIRSHFIELD
(1872-1946)

Home with Fountains
Oil on canvas,
20 x 28-1/4 inches

Signed and dated at lower left: M. HIRSHFIELD/1940

Recorded: William Saroyan, Morris Hirshfield (1976) p. 135

Exhibited: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1943, Morris Hirshfield;
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1965, Morris Hirshfield 1872-1946, no. 7, illus

Ex coll: Sidney Janis Gallery;
To Dr. and Mrs. Norman Laskey, Mt. Kisco, New York, until 2002;
By descent in their family until 2006

Home with Fountains

NOTE: Morris Hirshfield created one of the more unique bodies of work in the history of American painting. He began painting after he retired as a tailor, so was able to create only 77 paintings. Often elements in his work are more than they seem, like the two fountains in this picture: they are fountains around a circular drive but also form two smiling faces.