American Decades
On the Town Caricature
Cartoon
By: Al Hirschfeld
Date: November 1944
Source: On the Town. Available online at http://www.leonardbernstein.com/studio/element.asp?FeatID=1... ; website home page: http://www.leonardbernstein.com (accessed February 25, 2003).
About the Artist: Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003), an American graphic artist, was born in St. Louis. He is famous for his caricatures of theater people and productions, thousands of which appeared in the Sunday Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times to signal the arrival of new shows.
Introduction
After Oklahoma! opened in 1943, the Broadway musical changed. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein showed everyone how the songs, music, dance, and plot could be integrated...
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1940's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The Aims of Music for Films"
- "The Irresponsibles"
- Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art
- "I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)"
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- "The Life of John Brown" Series, No. 17
- What Is Modern Painting
- On the Town Caricature
- "Richard Wright's Blues"
- The Iceman Cometh
- "What Hollywood Can Do"
- "The Gangster As Tragic Hero"
- "Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?"
- William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- "The American Theatre"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
