Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5." – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic drawing captures Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5." in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5."
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Few caricaturists would place a Danish physicist and a Hollywood-era comedienne on one sheet, but Al Hirschfeld did so here, pairing Philip Bosco as Niels Bohr from Michael Frayn's play *Copenhagen* with Claudia Shear as Mae West in *Dirty Blonde*. Hirschfeld spent decades capturing Broadway performers in spare, flowing lines, and this drawing, rendered in ink and gouache, shows how easily he moved between two very different stage worlds: a tense wartime debate about physics and a playful tribute to a famous performer. The sheet is dated 2000, and it was later included in the Library of Congress exhibition *Al Hirschfeld: Beyond Broadway*.
| Created / published | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on board : ink and gouache ; 53.3 x 68.6 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Caricatures 2000.Gouaches Color 2000. |
| Notes | Exhibited: Al Hirschfeld : Beyond Broadway, Library of Congress, 2000-2001. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003. Unprocessed in AP |
| Subjects | Bosco, Philip--Performances. Shear, Claudia--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,637 × 3,727 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222050 |
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