{"id":165,"date":"2003-01-24T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2003-01-24T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/the-line-king\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T23:25:21","slug":"the-line-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/the-line-king\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LINE KING"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_414\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/01\/hirschfeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-414\" title=\"Hirschfeld self-portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/01\/hirschfeld.jpg\" alt=\"Hirschfeld self-portrait\" width=\"200\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hirschfeld self-portrait<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three notable American&#8217;s left us this week, and with each passing a chapter of history has been written. Al Hirschfeld is somebody I would have liked to meet. Since the 1920&#8217;s \u2014 and right up until just a few weeks ago \u2014 his elegant and witty portraits of celebrities and statesmen graced the pages of the New York Times. For many people, his style evokes New York. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhirschfeld.com\/\">Margo Feiden Galleries<\/a>, exclusive agent for his work, kept its warehouse just around the corner from where I used to work in Greenwich Village. I would pass by nearly every day and never failed to stop and appreciate the drawings. I admired him immensely.<\/p>\n<p>More than just a chronicler of history, his unique style elevated him to iconic status. Few people have lived the span he did, let alone maintained such a level of influence for so long. Seeing a Hirschfeld drawing in the theater section of the Times &#8212; and counting the &#8220;Ninas&#8221; &#8212; has been a ritual comfort and a source of entertainment for generations of readers. His first published drawing was of the French actor Sacha Guitry in 1926; the last piece published in the Times while he was still alive was a portrait of Tommy Tune. Hirschfeld passed away on January 20 at the age of 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three notable American&#8217;s left us this week, and with each passing a chapter of history has been written. Al Hirschfeld is somebody I would have liked to meet. Since the 1920&#8217;s \u2014 and right up until just a few weeks ago \u2014 his elegant and witty portraits of celebrities and statesmen graced the pages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}