Jill DeGroff Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1954 -

Jill DeGroff is a fine artist and sought-after caricaturist of the craft cocktail era with a passionate cult following. Inspired by Al Hirschfeld's illustrations of speakeasies in his 1932 book Manhattan Oases, she began painting and sketching in bars and jazz clubs over two decades ago, often accompanying her husband, Dale DeGroff, the James Beard award-winning mixologist and author of The Craft of the Cocktail (and its recent update The New Craft of the Cocktail) and with whom she co-founded the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans in 2004. Her book, Lush Life Portraits from the Bar, (New York, 2009) is an anthology of the colorful characters she met in bars around the world and the tales they told.