Editing Al Hirschfeld (section)

==Personal life and death==
He married chorus girl Florence Ruth Hobby in 1927;<ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Shepard|first1=Richard F.|last2=Gussow|first2=Mel|title=Al Hirschfeld, 99, Dies; He Drew Broadway|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/theater/al-hirschfeld-99-dies-he-drew-broadway.html|date=January 21, 2003|access-date=February 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311160754/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/theater/al-hirschfeld-99-dies-he-drew-broadway.html|archive-date=March 11, 2017|url-status=live|language=en-US}}</ref> the couple separated in 1932 and divorced in 1943, the year he married Dolly Haas.{{cn|date=December 2023}} Haas died in 1994, aged 84. They had one child, Nina.<ref name="corliss" />

In 1996, he married Louise Kerz, a theatre historian (b. 1936).<ref>{{cite news|title=Louise Kerz and Al Hirschfeld|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/style/louise-kerz-and-al-hirschfeld.html?pagewanted=1|access-date=December 3, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|issue=27 October 1996|date=27 October 1996|location=New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094744/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/style/louise-kerz-and-al-hirschfeld.html?pagewanted=1|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

On January 20, 2003, Hirschfeld died of natural causes in his home at 122 East 95th Street in Manhattan.<ref name="NYT obit" /> He was survived by Kerz and Nina.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hawtree |first=Christopher |title=Obituary: Al Hirschfeld |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/22/guardianobituaries |date=January 22, 2003 |access-date=December 24, 2023}}</ref>