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A Love Affair with Line: Drawings by Al Hirschfeld
June 6 through September 8, 2002

Me and the Set, 1995
(Includes Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, and Kukla, Fran, and Ollie)
India ink with brown gouache
21 x 27 1/2 in. (535 x 700 mm)
Collier's, 27 May 1955
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, HTC 4,075
Copyright © Al Hirschfeld. Courtesy of Mr. Hirschfeld and the Harvard Theatre Collection.

Self-Portrait, 1985
26 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (682 x 530 mm)
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, HTC 3,997
Copyright © Al Hirschfeld. Courtesy of Mr. Hirschfeld and the Harvard Theatre Collection.

King Lear, by William Shakespeare
(Paul Scofield as King Lear, John Laurie as Gloucester, Tom Flemming as Kent, Irene Worth as Goneril, Alec McCowan as the Fool)
1964 Boston previews
27 x 19 in. (685 x 482 mm)
The New York Times, 17 May 1964
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Gift of Melvin R. Seiden, HTC 4,141
Copyright © Al Hirschfeld. Courtesy of Mr. Hirschfeld and the Harvard Theatre Collection.