Al Hirschfeld

“One good line in a Hirschfeld drawing is worth a thousand good words,” quipped Brooks Atkinson, whose respected words appeared alongside Al Hirschfeld’s likenesses on the theater pages of the New York Times. Acknowledging the artist’s awesome potency, Brenda Gill of The New Yorker notes: “To be a star on Broadway is to drawn by Hirschfeld.” “His portraits need no identifying labels,” stated Lloyd Goodrich, Director Emeritus of the Whiney Museum of American Art. “They are more like the person than the person himself.” And actor Jack Lemmon summed it all up when he said, “If Al Hirschfeld hasn’t drawn you – you don’t exist.”

