HAND SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER THE LATE AL HIRSCHFELD AMERICAN CARICATURIST

Description: HELLO AGAIN HERE IS A WONDERFUL HAND SIGNED FIRST DAY COVERTHE FDC HAS BEEN SIGNED BY THE LATE AMERICAN CARICTURIST AL HIRSCHFELD THE FIRST DAY COVER IS IN HONOR OF MARY CASSATT-A FAMOUS AMERICAN ARTISTIT DOES HAVE A CORRESPONDING 5 CENT STAMP IN HONOR OF MARY CASSATTTHE POST DATE IS FROM WASHINGTON D.C. --NOVEMBER 17, 1966 FDC IS IN GOOD CONDITIONMEASURES APPROXIMATELY 6.5 X 3.5 HAND SIGNED **********************************************ALL AUTOGRAPHS ARE HAND-SIGNED BY THE CELEBRITIES INDICATED. THERE ARE NO PRE-PRINTS OR AUTOPENS. WE ARE DEDICATED COLLECTOR'S WITH MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. SHIPPINGALL AUTOGRAPHS ARE PACKAGED WITH CARE. THEY ARE PLACED IN CARDBOARD AND MARKED "DO NOT BEND" PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT WITH ANY QUESTION.************************************************ Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. In 1924, Hirschfeld traveled to Paris and London, where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. When he returned to the United States, a friend, fabled Broadway press agent Richard Maney, showed one of Hirschfeld's drawings to an editor at the New York Herald Tribune, which got Hirschfeld commissions for that newspaper and then, later, The New York Times. Hirschfeld's style is unique, and he is considered to be one of the most important figures in contemporary drawing and caricature, having influenced countless artists, illustrators, and cartoonists. His caricatures were regularly drawings of pure line in black ink, for which he used a genuine crow quill. Readers of The New York Times and other newspapers prior to the time they printed in color will be most familiar with the Hirschfeld drawings that are black ink on white illustration board. However, there is a whole body of Hirschfeld’s work in color. Hirschfeld’s full-color paintings were commissioned by many magazines, often as the cover. Examples are TV Guide, Life Magazine, American Mercury, Look Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New Masses, and Seventeen Magazine. He also illustrated many books in color, most notably among them Harlem As Seen By Hirschfeld, with text by William Saroyan.In addition to Broadway and film, Hirschfeld also drew politicians, TV stars, and celebrities of all stripes from Cole Porter and the Nicholas Brothers to the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also caricatured jazz musicians— Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald—and rockers The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, and Mick Jagger. In 1977 he drew the cover of Aerosmith's Draw the Line album. Hirschfeld drew many original movie posters, including for Charlie Chaplin's films, as well as The Wizard of Oz (1939). The "Rhapsody in Blue" segment in the Disney film Fantasia 2000 was inspired by his designs, and Hirschfeld became an artistic consultant for the segment; the segment's director, Eric Goldberg, is a longtime fan of his work. Further evidence of Goldberg's admiration for Hirschfeld can be found in Goldberg's character design and animation of the genie in Aladdin (1992). He was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary film, The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996). Permanent collections of Hirschfeld's work are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York

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