National Portrait Gallery
Miguel Covarrubias Caricatures
November 15, 1984 – February 10, 1985
On view are 84 drawings and paintings of celebrities of the 1920s and 1930s by the Mexican-born satiric artist, many of which appeared in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker magazines. Subjects include Ernest Hemingway, Emily Post, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne, H.L. Mencken, Igor Stravinsky, and such improbable combinations as Jean Harlow and Sigmund Freud, Noel Coward and Will Rogers, and Clark Gable and the Prince of Wales.
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