Al hirschfeld caricatures

Manchester Journal EnquirerThe Night They Toasted GershwinNovember 22, 1975 If music is the staff of life, the fiddlers are playing loud and clear. With any luck, rock and roll will get a decent funeral and we’ll all be singing and humming and tapping our feet to good music again if the current craze for beauty

Al Hirschfeld; his daughter was named Nina. In most of his illustrations, he would hide her name inside and I remember always looking for the "Nina" whenever coming upon them. Sweet.

The artist known as "The Line King" immortalized figures of the stage and screen

'jason robards in a thousand clowns' by al hirschfeld

Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) was an artist famous for his caricatures of celebrities. Hirschfeld depicted luminaries of stage, screen, radio, and television for The New York Times and other publications for nearly seven decades. His work was noted for its linear quality ("the Hirschfeld line"), particular patterns of cross-hatching, condensing the subject's most prominent features, and the intertwining of the name "Nina" (Hirschfeld's daughter) into his drawings. To promote Sesame Street Season…

In a new biography, Ellen Stern brings the great Broadway caricaturist to life.

Al Hirschfeld ~ Eartha Kitt in “Timbuktu”

'ingrid thulin in of love remembered' by al hirschfeld

Sitting in an old barber’s chair, on the fourth floor studio of his townhouse on East 95th Street, New York, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld does with a quill and ink what a barber would do with scissors and a comb. Leaning over a drafting table, he first looks over his sketches; pages cluttered with frantic-looking marks. On a new piece of paper, he begins to draw. Streamlining chaos into clarity, he snips away the inessential, leaving just a few lines. The result? Marilyn Monroe. Charlie…