Richard A. Hirsch (born 1944) is an American abstract ceramic sculptor. He received a BS in art education from the

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in 1956, an MFA in ceramics from the Rochester Institute of Technology's School for American Craftsmen in 1971 and an honorary Ph.D. from

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in 2008. He taught at Nazareth College (New York),

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(Ontario, Canada),

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and at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he currently holds the title of professor emeritus, College of Art and Design. Hirsch studied ancient Latin American and Chinese cultures, as well as traditional Japanese raku. ''Ceremonial Cup #14'', in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates how the artist combined the form of a

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tripod vessel with a

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surface. The

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(Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), the Benaki Museum (Athens, Greece), the Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, Florida), the

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(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the China Art Academy Museum (Hangzhou, China)], the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, Missouri), the

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(Syracuse, New York), the

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(Atlanta, Georgia), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the lcheon World Ceramic Center (Gyeonggi-do, South, Korea), the

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(Rochester, New York), the Mint Museum (Charlotte, North Carolina), the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), the

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. The National Museum of Art (Riga, Latvia), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the

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(Logan, Utah), the Ohi Museum (Kanazawa, Japan), the

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(Kristiansand, Norway) and the Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taipei, Taiwan) are among the public collections holding work by Richard A. Hirsch.The Marks Project, The Dictionary of American Studio Ceramics
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References

* Hirsch, Richard, “The Raku Family Tradition” in ''Studio Potter'', January, 1979 * Hirsch, Richard, ''The Uncommon Denominator: A Tribute to Richard Hirsch'', Rochester Institute of Technology, Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2005 * Meyer, Scott, ''With Fire: Richard Hirsch'', Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 2012

Footnotes

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