Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Portrait of Neil Young by Al Hirschfeld

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Neil Young
Illustration by Al Hirschfeld


Caricature artist Al Hirschfeld created some of the most well known portraits of celebrities for the New York Times for many years.

Here's Hirschfeld's rendering of Neil Young.

One of Hirschfeld's signature traits was to embed each portrait with "The Nina". This was the trick of integrating the name of his daughter into the drawing itself.

Can you find "The Nina" in Neil Young's portrait?

With Neil's upcoming honors as MusiCares Man of the Year, we would imagine we might be seeing more artistic portraits of Mr. Young.

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7 Comments:

At 1/20/2010 01:46:00 PM, Anonymous punkdavid said...

That's great.

Do we have any idea when this drawing dates from?

 
At 1/20/2010 02:36:00 PM, Blogger Thrasher said...

I think it's from late '90s.

 
At 1/20/2010 04:54:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder if the caricature of Steven Tyler of Aerosmith would look like Neil? :->

- Not Rotten Johnny

 
At 1/21/2010 12:10:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Variety is reporting that Neil Young will be the musical guest on the final (??) Late Night with Conan O' Brien show:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014093.html?categoryId=14&cs=1

GH

 
At 1/21/2010 09:48:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, where is "The Nina"? Or did my myopia grow worse?

 
At 1/21/2010 03:00:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting caricature but, with all due respect to Al Hirschfeld, I have to say I prefer Joni`s (as shown on TW a while back).

I can`t find "The Nina" either! Can anyone?

Jill

 
At 1/22/2010 03:31:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Nina is easier to find than Neil here. (sorry)

 

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