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For more than fifty years, Sam Norkin has remained one of the country’s leading theatrical caricaturists. His legendary drawings of theatre, opera, ballet, and movie personalities have appeared in such notable publications as The Herald Tribune, The Daily News, the Philadelphia Enquirer, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Variety, Back Stage, and numerous other newspapers and magazines.
Mr. Norkin is the proud recipient of numerous awards including several from The National Cartoonists Society, as well as the prestigious honor of the award for “Lifetime Body of Work” in 1995 from the Drama Desk, an association of Drama Critics, Drama Editors and Drama Reporters. His work has been exhibited in many galleries, as well as the Lincoln Center Museum of the Performing Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, the Metropolitan Opera House, and the Hudson River Museum.
Known as New York’s “graphic reporter,” Mr. Norkin holds a special place in the history of theatre coverage: As the interest in theatre escalated after the second World War, editors were hungry for images from new productions. However, until a show opened there would be no photographic opportunies.
Mr. Norkin was approached by the New York theatre community to assemble all the scattered components of a play in developement and realize it in pen and ink. He was given access at rehearsals to costume sketches, fittings, scenic designs and performers. He was thus able to furnish newspapers with dramatic images, frequently enlarged to the entire width of the Sunday Drama Page, just under the masthead. His drawings became the premier images for performance openings.
Mr. Norkin continues to lecture and demonstrate the art of caricature, as well as play an active role in the theatre community, and to contribute his drawings for publications across the country. Responsible for more sketches of ballet, theatre, opera, and music than any other artist, his work has been seen by more readers than that of any other caricaturist.
For further information, phone Sam Norkin at (212) 873-1695.
E-mail: norkinsam@earthlink.net
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