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By Polly Anderson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Al Hirschfeld, whose grace
ful, fluid caricatures captured the
essence of performers from
Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Seinfeld,
died Monday. He was 99.
Hirschfeld, who first had his
drawings published in the 1920s
and continued into the new cen
tury, died at his home, said his
wife, Louise.
He claimed his creative
process was somewhat of a mys
tery, even to himself.
“All I know is that when it
works. I'm aware of it. But how
it’s accomplished, I don’t
know,” he once said.
His drawings usually con
tained hidden tributes to his
daughter. Nina. Just last month.
The New York Times published
a drawing by him of entertainer
Tommy Tune, complete with the
Hirschfeld hallmarks of fluid
line, spiky cross-hatching, a
graceful pose — and four Ninas.
Hirschfeld immortalized
entertainers from Ethel Merman
to the casts of the 2001 smash
“The Producers” and the 2002
revival of “Oklahoma!” He won
a special Tony award in 1975.
“I try to capture the charac
ter of the play or the individ
ual, rather than making a cari
cature for caricature's sake.
Making a big nose bigger isn’t
witty,” he said in a 1991
Associated Press interview.
He collaborated with
humorist S.J. Perelman on sever
al projects, including “Westward
Ha! Or, Around the World in 80
Cliches,” a 1948 best-seller
based on their travels on assign
ment for Holiday magazine. Less
successful was their ill-fated
attempt at a musical, "Sweet Bye
and Bye,” written with Ogden
Nash and Vernon Duke.;
Among his published collec
tions of drawings were “The
World of Hirschfeld” and “The
American Theatre as Seen by
Hirschfeld.” Hirschfeld was
author as well as illustrator of
the 1951 book, "Show Business
Is No Business.”
In 1991, he received a unique
tribute from the Postal Service,
which for the first time put an
artist’s name on a booklet of
stamps and allowed hidden
writing on a stamp — “NINA,”
of course.
But his works have graced
museum walls as well as penny
envelopes, and are in the perma
nent collections of several major
institutions, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the Museum of Modern Art,
both in New York.
Albert Hirschfeld was born
June 21, 1903, in St. Louis. The
family later moved to New York,
where Hirschfeld studied at the
Art Students League.
In 1924, he left for Paris, and
Al Hirschfeld,
whose
caricatures,
of celebrities
from
Hollywood to
Broadway,
died Monday.
He was 99.
Published; Collaboration with
humorist S.J. Perelman on
projects, such as “Westward
Ha! Or, Around the World in 80
Cliches,” a 1948 best-seller
based on their travels on
assignment for Holiday
magazine.
Illustrated “Harlem,” text by
William Saroyan, and “Treadmill
to Oblivion,” text by Fred Allen.
SOURCE: Associated Press AP
spent a few years studying
painting, drawing and sculpture
there and in London. He gradu
ally realized that drawing was
what he liked to do best.
During a trip back in New
York, a friend of his showed
one of his sketches of an actor
to someone the friend knew at
the New York Herald Tribune.
That led to assignments for that
paper, and, a short time later,
from the Times.
“I never take a day off,” he
once said. “When I would travel,
I would always draw. I wouldn't
know what else to do.”
In addition to his widow, he
is survived by daughter Nina
and a grandson.
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