Al Hirschfeld

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All works by Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003).

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We’re excited to announce Hirschfeld’s Icons, the latest book in the USA Today Best Selling Poster Book series with Abrams ComicArts, will release on April 28, 2026.

Hirschfeld’s Icons features 25 removable, easy-to-frame posters of celebrated figures across arts and culture.

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#OTD The Play’s The Thing with Genevieve Tobin and Reginald Owen, 1927

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July 17 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Lucie Arnaz, James Cagney, Diahann Carroll, Phyllis Diller, Ethyl Eichelberger, David Hasselhoff, Donald Sutherland, and Peter Schickele!

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#OTD Life with Father, 1939-1948: Stanley Ridges, Harry Bannister, A.H. Van Buren, Edwin Cooper, Percy Waram, Howard Lindsay, and Louis Calhern, 1948

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July 16 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Rubén Blades, Phoebe Cates, Bella Davidovich, Faye Grant, Laurence Guittard, Barnard Hughes, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, and Pinchas Zukerman!

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#OTD Patricia Elliott in The Shadow Box, 1977

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July 15 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Dorothy Fields, Brian Austin Green, Nan Martin, Joan Roberts, Linda Ronstadt, Nina van Pallandt, and Patrick Wayne!

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#OTD Anna Lucasta Reaches Its 800th Performance with Laura Bowman and Yvonne Machen, 1946

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July 14 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Polly Bergen, Jean Dixon, Gerald Ford, Matthew Fox, Arthur Laurents, Donald Meek, Nancy Olson, Vincent Pastore, Dale Robertson, and Harry Dean Stanton!

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#OTD Oscar Shaw and Bert Lahr in Flying High, 1930

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July 13 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Laura Benanti, Bob Crane, Jason Danieley, Harrison Ford, and Patrick Stewart!

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#OTD Eastward Ho! At the Greenwich Guild Playhouse, 1936

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July 12 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Milton Berle, Lisa Nicole Carson, Van Cliburn, Anna Friel, Joey Faye, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jean Hersholt, Cheryl Ladd, Jamey Sheridan, and Richard Simmons!

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#OTD Dolores Gray in 42nd Street, 1986

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We’re celebrating Yul Brynner on his birthday with a look of his drawings by Al Hirschfeld!

From iconic drawings for The King and I to behind the scenes work from his United Artists films, Hirschfeld captured Yul Brynner in many different roles! Which one is your favorite?

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July 11 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Sally Blane, Yul Brynner, Tab Hunter, and Stephen Lang!

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#RIP Joanna Pettet

Image: On the Set of The Group, 1965
Ft. Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Mary Robin Redd, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, Nina Hirschfeld, Sidney Lumet, Boris Kaufman, and Sidney Buchman.

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#OTD Miss Liberty with Allyn McLerie, Ethel Griffies, Eddie Albert, and Mary McCarty, 1949

This drawing is one of the featured works in the America 250 episode of the Hirschfeld Century Podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or our podcast site: https://t.co/8ccGlUJc0X

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July 10 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Lili Damita, Giorgio de Chirico, John Gilbert, Arlo Guthrie, Fred Gwynne, Jerry Herman, Patti Karr, Evelyn Laye, Fiona Shaw, Noble Sissle, and William Smithers!

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#OTD David Rounds in Herringbone, 1982

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July 9 Hirschfeld Birthdays:

Lisa Banes, Brian Dennehy, Tom Hanks, David Hockney, and Kelly McGillis!

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