I took a moment this morning to dig through a stack of long-neglected vinyl albums. The above 1956 Dave Brubeck Trio album was just a few lps below some classical albums. The cover is by the great Arnold Roth, an artist with an abundance of tools in his artist’s toolbox (remember his covers for John Updike’s Bech books? A bonus when I slipped the record itself out of the sleeve: it’s red translucent!
Here’s Arnold Roth’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Arnold Roth Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1929. New Yorker work: November 16, 1992 –. Mr. Roth’s career is long and storied, his work associated with a number of magazines including Playboy, Esquire, TIME, and Punch. Read all about it on his website: arnoldroth.com/
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Madeline Horwath began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019; Ellis Rosen in 2016.