Entertainment & Arts
For 70 years Al Hirschfeld’s whimsical caricatures of theater performers and celebrities have enchanted readers, primarily of the New York Times, with whom Hirschfeld, 93, only recently signed a contract.
Dec. 6, 1996
Movies
In “The Line King,” Susan Dryfoos has given us an affectionate tribute to Al Hirschfeld, who like Thomas Nast and Norman Rockwell, created images Americans cherish of themselves.
Jan. 6, 1999
With Susan W.
March 30, 1997
A new exhibition showcases the Hollywood works of noted cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, who began creating movie art in 1920.
Oct. 23, 2001
Al Hirschfeld, whose spare yet incisive drawings captured the essence and memorialized the stardom of hundreds of Broadway and Hollywood performers over an astonishing eight decades, died Monday.
Jan. 21, 2003
Los Angeles residents this month will have first dibs on five new commemorative Postal Service stamps with caricatures of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny and Fanny Brice.
Aug. 16, 1991
Movies: For more than 70 years, Al Hirschfeld has been capturing actors and personalities in his caricatures. Now a documentary looks at his life.
Dec. 5, 1996
Books
THE POET IN EXILE, By Ray Manzarek, Thunder’s Mouth Press: 210 pp., $22.95 HIRSCHFELD’S HOLLYWOOD: The Film Art of Al Hirschfeld, By David Leopold, Abrams: 96 pp., $15.95 DOWN BY THE LEMONADE SPRINGS: Essays on Wallace Stegner, By Jackson J. Benson University of Nevada Press: 174 pp., $24.95 paper
Jan. 20, 2002
Arguably the most influential caricaturist of the 20th Century, Al Hirschfeld would have been recognized as a national living treasure if the United States government awarded that honor: As it is, he remains our uncrowned illustrator laureate.
Dec. 1, 1991
Like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the contemporary Disney animated features “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast” looked back to the richly detailed style of the great 19th- and early 20th-Century European storybook illustrators.
Nov. 8, 1992