Aline Fruhauf

Aline Fruhauf (1907–1978) was an American caricaturist and painter known for her various mixed-media caricatures of musicians, the Supreme Court justices, and artists such as Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Max Weber, and Raphael Soyer, among others.

Career Aline Fruhauf's career began early for her as she went from art student to professional caricaturist while still attending Parsons School of Design in New York. Her first caricature appeared in New York World in 1926, her drawings were featured in New York dailies, and she was given a regular column in The Morning Telegraph a year later. She also regularly contributed to the periodical Musical America in 1927. In 1930, she enrolled in The Art Students League of New York, in order to transition from editorial pieces in newspapers to exhibiting and selling her art in galleries, as a result of the fall of the Stock Market and the decline of newspaper sales. Aline's first commissioned series were caricatures of legal figures based on satirists Ape and Spy. This series of New York judges (1934–1936) was the first time she had been on a regular payroll and was getting paid for what she loved to do. One of her most successful pieces from this series of prints was of the Supreme Court justices, The Nine Old Men (1936). By doing this, she met emerging New York artists like Max Weber and Stuart Davis.