The Boston Tea Party

1975

Joseph Hirsch

Associated Names
Joseph Hirsch

Artist, American, 1910 - 1981

George C. Miller & Son

Printer, New York

This print shows two individuals on a deck. A man on the right is standing upright, his body facing us and turned slightly to the left, his arms raised above his head holding a rectangular object wrapped in brown material. He has short hair tied with a white headband with several feathers sticking out of the back, and he wears a blue tunic with a red-orange cloak and a wide white belt. His skin is pale blue-gray. The other person on the left has their back to us. They are wearing a helmet with more feathers and a dark green cloak, and they hold an axe above their head with one arm. Behind this person appear to be more boxes or rectangular objects. Surrounding these people are ropes and the edge of a red flag in the top left corner. The sky behind them is cloudy, with swirls of light blue and gray, casting a blue-gray light over the scene.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Lorillard Tobacco Company)

  • Dimensions

    image: 70.8 × 48.26 cm (27 7/8 × 19 in.)
    sheet: 88.58 × 58.26 cm (34 7/8 × 22 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.2588

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cole 1970, undescribed

  • Portfolio Title

    Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lorillard Company, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • Artists Celebrate the Bicentennial, United States Information Agency (Tour of Europe), 1976-1977

Bibliography

1975

  • Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence. New York: Lorillard Company, 1975, pp. 14-15.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 5/125; lower right in graphite: Joseph Hirsch

Watermarks

RIVES BFK

Wikidata ID

Q77011976

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