Joseph Hirsch (1910-1981)
The Kiss 1948
lithograph 3 3/4 x 4 3/4, signed; ed. 200
UAM 1992.109

Joseph Hirsch's The Kiss is an unaffectedly beautiful image of a kissing couple, one which does not shy away from the fact of their race. The date of the image, however, is 1948, at a point when civil rights had begun to move to the center of American politics.