The Al Hirschfeld Foundation is offering a new, online exhibition, “Lost in the Stars: Black Theater Makers Drawn by Hirschfeld,” which explores work of this iconic artist that documents nearly ...

On February 19th, 1887, the Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide reported that developers William J. and John P. Walsh and ...

Ninety years ago, Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) drew his first caricature. Now his stylized drawings of stars and scenes are the subject of an exhibit called “The Hirschfeld Century” at the New-York ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld measure 0.9 linear feet and date from 1931-1983. Found within the papers are letters to Hirschfeld, ...

A dispute over the legacy of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld has held up publication of his life story. Farrar, Straus and Giroux was supposed to release “Hirschfeld: The Biography” by Ellen Stern on Oct.

One summer day in the early 1960s, Michel Kleinbaum, a diamond setter who lived in New York City, paid a visit to his favorite thrift store near where he worked in Manhattan. It’s the place that he ...

More than a dozen years after Al Hirschfeld’s death, his art remains instantly recognizable. The elastic, almost rubbery line. The cleverly exaggerated eyes, eyebrows and hair of countless movie and ...

Al Hirschfeld fairly Forrest Gump-ed his way through the celebrated entertainers of the 20th century, whether he was meeting Harry Houdini backstage during a vaudeville-loving boyhood, or welcoming ...

Al Hirschfeld, 99, considered one of the cleverest caricature artists in America, capturing in his distinctive line drawings Broadway figures and other leading lights of modern culture, died Jan. 20 ...

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When is a mural not a mural? When it’s wallpaper. Margo Feiden — the agent and gallerist for caricaturist Al Hirschfeld since 1969 — is astounded by recent stories about the sale of Hirschfeld’s East ...