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‘He was a star maker, in every sense’: Celebrating the distinctive Broadway art of Al Hirschfeld

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Another constant for over 40 years was Al Hirschfeld, whose highly distinctive line drawing caricatures of Broadway accompanied the New York Times reviews of new openings. No one elevated the simple line drawing embodiment of Broadway to an art form in its own right quite as he did.