Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn
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Al Hirschfeld
(American, 1903 - 2003)
Daten.d.
Mediumetching on paper
Dimensions16 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (41.9 x 55.2 cm)
ClassificationsFine Art
Credit LineThe I. Webb Surratt, Jr. Print Collection
Object numberH2006.02.03
Curator NotesLasting Impressions: Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
September 27, 2006 to December 08, 2006
One of America’s most popular caricaturists, Hirschfeld’s instantly recognizable style captured film stars, celebrities, and Broadway actors and actresses for nearly eight decades. He is also known for hiding the name of his daughter, Nina, in almost all of his drawings produced after her birth in 1945 (look for her name in this print).
Hirschfeld’s print illustrates a scene from the 1967 movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” in which Hepburn and Tracy play the affluent parents of Houghton, who brings home Sidney Poitier, himself an accomplished doctor, as her new fiance. For its drawing-room comedy’s approach to racism and liberalism in the 1960s, the film won two Oscars, one for Hepburn as leading actress and one for Best Writing.
September 27, 2006 to December 08, 2006
One of America’s most popular caricaturists, Hirschfeld’s instantly recognizable style captured film stars, celebrities, and Broadway actors and actresses for nearly eight decades. He is also known for hiding the name of his daughter, Nina, in almost all of his drawings produced after her birth in 1945 (look for her name in this print).
Hirschfeld’s print illustrates a scene from the 1967 movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” in which Hepburn and Tracy play the affluent parents of Houghton, who brings home Sidney Poitier, himself an accomplished doctor, as her new fiance. For its drawing-room comedy’s approach to racism and liberalism in the 1960s, the film won two Oscars, one for Hepburn as leading actress and one for Best Writing.
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