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Stefan Hirsch has a discipline less outré [than Marsden Hartley], unusual rather as dedicated to the easel picture than as exemplifying the attempt to regard painting as a sheerly intellectual process.
Angelo Hirsch, Head of household, age 67, born in Germany; Stefan Hirsch, Son, 31, Germany; Dorothy Hirsch, Daughter, 21, Germany; Leona Czesmadia, Servant, 48, Czechoslovakia, Betty Koenigsruter, Servant, 28, Germany
Stefan Hirsch, birth: January 2, 1899; Immediate Family: Son of Angelo Hirsch and Florence Hirsch, Husband of Else Hirsch, Brother of Alice Gundelfinger and Dorothy Hirsch
Stefan Hirsch's "Justice as Protector and Avenger" in the Charles E. Simmons, Jr. Federal Court House in Aiken was the cause of public outrage. The bold use of shape and color echoed stylistic elements of the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The strong angles and contrasting colors led presiding Judge Frank K. Myers to derisively call it "contemporary art". But it wasn't just the modern appearance that made citizens upset, it was the figure of Justice herself. Some believed that she was bi-racial, which was not considered to be in keeping with the "Southern conception of art." Even though the artist denied that the figure was bi-racial, this un-vanilla representation of Justice in Jim Crow South Carolina was enough for the judge to hang curtains over the mural. Since then, the mural has remained obscured, since it is viewed as being a courtroom distraction.
Hamilton Field died from pneumonia in 1922. He was childless but named his 'adopted' son Robert Laurent as his sole heir. Robert and four artists who lived and worked in the Cove established the Hamilton Easter Field Foundation. This foundation was run by artists, in honor of an artist, to aid fellow artists by buying their work.
