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    Al Hirschfeld

    American caricaturist (–)

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    Born()June 21,

    St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

    DiedJanuary 20, () (aged&#;99)

    New York City, New York, U.S.

    EducationArt Students League of New York
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    Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, – January 20, ) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.[1]

    Early life and career

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    Al Hirschfeld was born in in a two-story duplex apartment at Carr Street in St. Louis, Missouri.[2][3] His father, Isaac, was a German Jewish traveling salesman, while his mother Rebecca was from a family of strict, Russian Orthodox Jews; his maternal grandparents refused to eat in his parents' non-kosher home.[4]

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    WEST WING HA!Presidents & Their Challengers As Seen by Hirschfeld

    The quadrennial spectacle of the presidential campaign is one of the few shows playing around the country at the moment, and like most theatre it includes heroes and villains, backstage crews, directors, designers and critics, all playing for audiences everywhere. While Al Hirschfeld admitted he did not have the bile needed to be a political commentator, and preferred for writers to pick the good guys and the bad guys, for nine decades he drew virtually every president of his lifetime, and thanks to Broadway and Hollywood, he got to draw a few more.

    Now for the first time, we have gathered 25 pieces that document Hirschfeld’s view of the Oval Office occupants from an early sculpture of Abraham Lincoln to a drawing of the popular television show The West Wing more than eighty years later. Hirschfeld drew the President and any challengers in good times and in bad times, in musicals and in dramas, and in thri

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    George Washington

    Founding Father, first U.S. president (–)

    "General Washington" redirects here. For other uses, see General Washington (disambiguation) and George Washington (disambiguation).

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    In office
    April 30, &#;– March 4,
    Vice PresidentJohn Adams
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byJohn Adams
    In office
    June 19, &#;– December 23,
    Appointed byContinental Congress
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byHenry Knox (as Senior Officer)
    In office
    September 5, &#;– June 16,
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byThomas Jefferson
    In office
    July 24, &#;– June 24,
    Preceded byHugh West
    Succeeded byOffice abolished
    Constituency
    In office
    April 30, &#;– December 14,
    BornFebruary 22, [a]
    Popes Creek, Colony of Virginia, British America
    DiedDecember 14, () (aged&#;67)
    Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.
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