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Leo Hershfield
Leo Hershfield (1904 – 1979) was a prominent American illustrator and a courtroom artist for NBC News. NBC referred to him as the "Dean of Courtroom Artists" since he was the first modern artist to sketch for TV news in 1950's and covered 147 trials for NBC until when he died in the late 1970s.
==Biography==
Hershfield was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the child of immigrants Isadore Abraham Hershfield and Ida Alshanetsky from Kiev, Ukraine. After growing up in Chattanooga, TN, he moved to New York in the 1920s, where he studied at the National Academy of Design and joined the Art Students League. He supported himself as an employee in the "morgue", or clippings library of the ''New York World''. In 1923, he worked his way to Europe twice on a freighter to expand his drawing and watercolor style. In the 1930s, he worked simultaneously on the staff of the ''Chattanooga Times'' and later began writing articles and drawing for the political and theater pages of ''The New York Times.
In 1940, he worked for the controversial ''PM'' then moved to Alexandria, VA to join the Office of War Information with his new wife, former model and Roxyette Mary Emma Hurst of New Bern, North Carolina. When the war ended he became a freelancer, illustrating for publications such as ''Reader's Digest,'' ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and Kiplinger's ''Changing Times''. During the 1950s and early 1960s he also created vivid political cartoons as cover art for the ''Democratic Digest'', the publication of the Democratic National Committee. Hershfield illustrated the covers and interiors of more than 55 books, including those by Richard Armour, Vincent Price, H. Allen Smith and Groucho Marx. Hershfield worked in many media including pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, block printing, wood carving, metal sculpture and photography. He designed and built children's toys as well wrote and illustrated a children's book.
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