Stage Beauties
A cofounder of a women’s coat and suit company, Hirshfield began making art at age sixty-five. His focus and methods in painting extended from his skills as a tailor. Depicting mainly female nudes and women performers, Hirshfield often prepared full-scale drawings of his compositions and traced them onto his canvases as stencil patterns. This process remains visible in Stage Beauties: the pencil tracing marks can be seen through the paint layer. Influential gallery owner Sidney Janis propelled Hirshfield to fame after he discovered the self-taught artist’s work in New York.
Artwork Details
- Title: Stage Beauties
- Artist: Morris Hirshfield (American (born Poland), 1872–1946 Brooklyn)
- Date: 1944
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 40 1/8 in. × 48 in. (101.9 × 121.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Carroll and Donna Janis, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.1118
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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