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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts > Exhibitions Centennial Salute to Al HirschfeldFrom June 20, 2003 through August 29, 2003
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts pays tribute to Al Hirschfeld and marks the 100th anniversary of his birth with Centennial Salute to Al Hirschfeld, a display of ten of the artist’s specially-commissioned works. Hirschfeld, whose singular drawings captured American theater for the greater part of a century, died in January of this year. In the early 1970s, he was given a commission to commemorate a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. For each play, he drew a scene from the show and also created a collage with a portrait of the playwright and the cast pages from the original Playbill. All of the drawings included in the show are signed, and the scenes from the plays incorporate Hirschfeld’s signature Ninas. |
