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League York City: He built international houses for students in New York City, Chicago, Berkeley, Calif., and Paris, France. He contributed the library building to the League york City of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and the land for the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Rockefeller Center, a complex of business buildings with landscaped gardens in midtown Manhattan, built during the economic depression of the 1930's, is a monument to his vision in urban planning.
Hirsch's painting of Two Men (Museum of Modern Art, New York), portraying a white worker and his Negro companion, won the popularity vote at the New York World's Fair in 1939. It is an example of Hirsch's reaffirmation of his "faith in the common ordinary man." Hirsch became a teacher of painting at the Art Students League york City, New York City, in 1959. His work appears in leading American museums.
Although he had attended the Yale School of the Fine Arts and studied briefly at the Art Students League york City of New York, Remington was virtually self-taught as an artist. After his return to New York City in 1885, his struggle for recognition was intense but brief. Within a year he exhibited a painting at the National Academy, and he made remarkable strides as an illustrator of the Western scene for leading magazines. |
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