It is a good day when you have Ken Burns making the pitch for our latest online Hirschfeld exhibition.
03.03.2026 18:43
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It is a good day when you have Ken Burns making the pitch for our latest online Hirschfeld exhibition.
Mike Connors in Mannix
Sonny Bono & Cher for The Sonny and Cher Show
Flip Wilson for The Flip Wilson Show
Did you watch any of these shows?
Get a first look at our brand-new book Hirschfeld's Icons coming April 28!
The latest book in our poster book series highlights the greatest in arts and culture as seen by Hirschfeld!
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Cover of Hirschfeld’s Icons book with line portrait in color of Liza Minnelli
So glad you like. New poster book coming out 4/28 HIRSCHFELD’S ICONS
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This is actually from my township. Fits the local GOP.
This is my new book and it turned out beautifully.
Charcoal portrait from life of Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, 1939
Charcoal portrait from life by Ben Solowey from No Time for Comedy, 1939
#OTD Baker Street with Martin Gabel, Fritz Weaver, Peter Sallis, and Inga Swenson, 1965
February 14 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
John Barrymore, Jack Benny, Jessica Dragonette, Stuart Erwin, Florence Henderson, Gregory Hines, Laurie Kennedy, Thelma Ritter, Andrew Robinson, and Teller!
View full works at alhirschfeldfoundation.org
For Abraham Lincoln's birthday, here's a bust 16-year old Al Hirschfeld made of the 16th President of the United States in 1919, when Hirschfeld briefly had an interest in sculpture.
With the luxury tax it is actually more
February 7 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Adrianne Allen, Eubie Blake, Eddie Bracken, Dora Bryan, Juliette Gréco, and Sinclair Lewis!
View full works at alhirschfeldfoundation.org
He’s doing like so many, he’s following the money and eventually the power.
January 31 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Tallulah Bankhead, Sibyl Bowman, Eddie Cantor, Carol Channing, Portia De Rossi, Joanne Dru, John Dye, Philip Glass, Annette Hunt, Anthony LaPaglia, Mario Lanza, Garry Moore, John O'Hara, Suzanne Pleshette, Cristine Rose, Jean Simmons, and Jessica Walter!
January 25 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Elizabeth Allen, Mildred Dunnock, Portland Hoffa, Dean Jones, Alicia Keys, Paula Laurence, and Dinah Manoff!
View full works at alhirschfeldfoundation.org
Ruby Keeler with multiple arms and legs dancing by Al Hirschfeld
I always thought this drawing captured the performance better than any video
Edifice complex
Typically the most viewed Hirschfeld video of the year
December 31 Hirschfeld Birthdays:
Ben Kingsley, Susan Litter, Henri Matisse, Sarah Miles, Bebe Neuwirth, Jason Robards Sr., and Jule Styne!
View full works at alhirschfeldfoundation.org
This is it. Enjoy!
First holiday in his theater art is a Xmas in July.
You’ll also hear when Whoopi believed she saw Santa during a rehearsal and it was Al
There are more good stories and even better art.
I guess I had good sources in the tape collector community. It was tacked on to the end of a live tape
I interviewed him while he was on tour supporting this record which I saw in Pittsburgh. It was published in Pittsburgh newspaper before being up by the Golden Road. I surprised him by telling him I heard a demo of Garcia singing What’ll You Raise from Go to Heaven sessions
this turned out to be a fun show. It turns Hirschfeld and the holidays go back 100 years. We show and tell about one of the earliest printed works of Al’s is a funny 1925 holiday card from the artist. We also have a surprise reveal at the end of the episode.
I liked to think that I have long enough to see the boots of my youth now released as official product. The latest Dylan box has a ton of stuff collectors found and released. Their source material has been cleaned up professionally and is a nice chunk of material
Another example of the type of data that historians can turn to that cannot be found through AI
that time of year when theatres do the play that critiques capitalism so that they can make money
My wife swears by eating some candied ginger. It really helps her
Hirschfeld caricature of Gregory Hines doing the Scrooge dance in Coming Uptown
First time any version of Xmas Carol was on Broadway.
Hirschfeld caricature of George C Scott as Scrooge trudging thru snow
On the next Hirschfeld Century podcast that comes out next week we talk about this film. In America it was shown on CBS and in the UK at theaters. Hirschfeld did a drawing for CBS that appeared in publications across the country. I insisted my co host watch it.
This is the start of an 82 year career. Hirschfeld was 17 at the time. He wouldn’t publish his first caricature for another five years.