The Artist and His Model
Morris Hirshfield
Celebrated as one of 2022’s best exhibitions by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic, Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered travels to the Cantor Art Center. Showcasing Hirshfield’s imaginative, vibrantly patterned paintings, the Cantor exhibition will also feature Surrealist artists that Hirshfield was exhibited alongside in New York, such as Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, and Leonora Carrington, and a new section devoted to self-taught artists such as John Kane, Hector Hippolyte, and Grandma Moses.
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered was curated by Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History at Stanford University. Susan Davidson served as curatorial advisor to the exhibition. Valérie Rousseau, the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM)’s Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art and Art Brut, was the show’s coordinating curator.
For information about the Cantor Arts Center’s presentation of this exhibition, visit their website here.
Morris Hirshfield (1872, Poland–1946, United States), The Artist and His Model, 1945.Oil on canva, 44 x 34 in. American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of David L. Davies, 2002.23.1. ©2022 Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield, licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Morris Hirshfield (1872, Poland–1946, United States), Girl in Flowered Dress, 1945. Oil on canvas, 32 x 25 in. American Folk Art Museum, New York, gift of Donna and Carroll Janis, 2006.3.1. ©2022 Robert and Gail Rentzer for Estate of Morris Hirshfield, licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.