John Quidor: New York Stories
About This Event
Live event at DiMenna Children's History Museum
About New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection
At the DiMenna Children’s History Museum, “New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection” presents Al Hirschfeld’s New York through the drawings gathered by his children. The exhibition traces how his spare lines turned Broadway, city institutions, and public figures into a recognizable visual record of the 20th-century city. Shown in a family-focused setting, the work reads less like celebrity portraiture than a map of who shaped New York’s cultural life. It also makes a strong case for caricature as historical documentation, not decoration.
About the Artist
John Quidor
John Quidor was an American painter of historical and literary subjects. About 35 of Quidor's canvases are known to survive, most of which are based on Washington Irving's stories about Dutch New York, drawing inspiration from the Hudson Valley and from such English painters as William Hogarth, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Joseph Wright of Derby, and George Morland.