Leo Hershfield
Visual Artist
1904 – 1979
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Who was Leo Hershfield?
Leo Hershfield 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 1970's.
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- Born
- Jan 28, 1904
Knoxville - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- National Academy of Design
- Died
- Apr 1, 1979
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on July 23, 2013
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