The New York Times hosts this fantastic and exhaustive gallery of Al Hirschfeld's line drawings for Broadway. The inimitable artist died last year at 99. The NYT's lengthy obituary at the time quoted from a letter he wrote the Times in 1986 on the subject of beauty:
Beauty is incapable of being defined scientifically or aesthetically. Anarchy takes over. Having devoted a long life to the art of caricature I have rarely convinced anyone that caricature and beauty are synonymous. Beauty may be the limited proportions of a classic Greek sculptured figure but it does not have to be — it could be an ashcan.
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