Barbra: Back To Broadway
1993
Pen & ink drawing on artists’ board and
hand-signed limited-edition lithograph
Commissioned by Sony Music
Entertainment Inc.

Barbra Streisand has been collecting Hirschfeld portraits of herself from the earliest days of my Gallery. So it was no surprise when, in 1993, an executive at Sony called to say that, as their gift to Barbra for the release of her Back To Broadway album, they wanted to commission a Hirschfeld drawing of her. I suggested to Sony that Broadway itself should also be a character in the portrait. They enthusiastically agreed! Hirschfeld’s drawing shows Barbra luminously presiding over Broadway, as though she were lighting it up, all by herself.