Faculty Talk: Richard Meyer: The Master of the Two Left Feet

This talk focuses on the obscure yet fascinating career of the folk artist Morris Hirshfield (1872-1946), a former tailor and slipper manufacturer who took up painting at the age of 65. Hirshfield's wildly stylized pictures of animals, landscapes, and female nudes attracted a great degree of attention in the 1940s, including a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943. Taking Hirshfield as case study, this talk considers the surprising dialogue between folk art and vanguard modernism at mid-century.

Faculty Talk: Richard Meyer: The Mast...

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Date and Time

Thursday Apr 20, 2017
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT

Thursday, April 20 5:30-7 pm

Location

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University 328 Lomita Drive Stanford, CA 94305

Fees/Admission

Free

Website

http://events.stanford.edu/events/671/67127/

Contact Information

museum.stanford.edu

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