A couple of high school teachers (names long forgotten):
A selection of U.S. Presidents:
Franklin Pierce
Abraham Lincoln
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon (he was such a gift to cartoonists! I was in high school during Watergate.)
Nixon
Gerald Ford (also fun to draw)
Ford (he was intellectually underrated at the time)
Gerald Ford - Turtle on Wheels
(to the best of my recollection, the point was:
after a slow start Ford was picking up steam.)
(to the best of my recollection, the point was:
after a slow start Ford was picking up steam.)
"What Shall We Throw in Next?"
Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger
(Ford supposedly considered sacking Kissinger)
(Ford supposedly considered sacking Kissinger)
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
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Harvard Faculty of the 1970s:
Harvard Faculty of the 1970s:
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Family portraits:
Brother Jim Propp as Alchemist
David
Moses
Auguste Renoir
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
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Writers:
Writers:
Samuel Beckett
Woody Allen
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In a class by himself:
Albert Einstein
(I apologize that all these are men; I have drawn women too, but the fact is that, until recently, most famous people have been male, except for beautiful actresses, who are inherently difficult to caricature--unless you are Al Hirschfeld!)
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As is tradition, I learned to caricature by copying "masters," primarily the celebrated David Levine
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As is tradition, I learned to caricature by copying "masters," primarily the celebrated David Levine
William F. Buckley after David Levine
(this is a naked forgery, down to the signature)
and the more obscure Kai Heinonen, who signed his work "KAI."
Governor and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller after KAI
Sammy Davis Jr. after KAI
Gov. George Wallace (I cannot remember whether this is by me, or another Heinonen copy)
I was once working in a museum in front of a portrait of Martin Luther, and a kid, maybe 12, came up to me and said, awestruck, "Are you KAI?" Though this really isn't up to Heinonen's level, the incident proved that I had reached a certain proficiency in the craft of forgery.
I was once working in a museum in front of a portrait of Martin Luther, and a kid, maybe 12, came up to me and said, awestruck, "Are you KAI?" Though this really isn't up to Heinonen's level, the incident proved that I had reached a certain proficiency in the craft of forgery.
Martin Luther
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