Banquet
Joseph Hirsch, Banquet, 1945, lithograph on beige wove paper, Gift of Christopher Russell, © unknown, research required, 2015.21.1
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- Title
Banquet
- Artist
- Related People
printer: George Miller (American, active early 20th century)
publisher: Associated American Artists (American, established 1934)
- Date
1945
- Medium
lithograph on beige wove paper
- Edition
edition of 250
- Catalogue Raisonné
Cole 11; Windisch and Cole 787
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 9 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in; sheet: 12 in x 15 7/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
signature: Joseph Hirsch, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
planographic print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Christopher Russell
- Accession Number
2015.21.1
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
In Banquet, two factory workers eat lunch side by side. The scene, presumably from the viewpoint of another customer at the lunch counter, suggests progress in the workplace resulting from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802, declaring, "There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries and in Government, because of race, creed, color, or national origin." Roosevelt issued the order in 1941, four years before Hirsch made this print, in response to African Americans being overlooked for better paying jobs and discouraged from joining the military.
- Exhibitions
2015 Now on View: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings Spanning 500 Years Portland Art Museum
2019 Associated American Artists: Prints for the People Portland Art Museum
