A Catalog Of Interest
Back in the Fall of 1968, a truly fab exhibit of work by Ralph Barton, Miguel Covarrubias, and John Held, Jr. was held at the Providence, Rhode Island’s Museum of Art (the show later moved to the Art Gallery at SUNY, Potsdam, NY). The catalog, though small (7″ x 8 1/2″ and 83 pages) contains a ton of info and art work. Job well done, all concerned!
Some sample pages, beginning with this Ralph Barton curtain design featuring well known folks of the time…
and these great photos of Barton and Covarrubias
a sample of some work by Covarrubias…
and a couple by Held…
More Held, with a Peter Arno caricature…
The Spill A-Z entries for the above artists:
Ralph Barton (photo above) Born August 14, 1891, Kansas City, Mo. Committed suicide on May 2oth, 1931 in NYC. New Yorker work: 3rd issue of The New Yorker, March 7th 1925 — May 23, 1931. Key book: Ralph Barton: The Last Dandy (University of Missouri Press, 1991) by
Bruce Kellner.
Miguel Covarrubias Born, 1904, Mexico City, Mexico. Died, February 4, 1957, Mexico City. New Yorker work: 1925 — 2nd issue through June of ’25. More information.
John Held Jr (Photo source: Sketchbook of American Humorists, 1938) Born, January 10, 1889, Salt Lake City, Utah. Died, 1958, Belmar, New Jersey. New Yorker work: April 11, 1925 – Sept. 17, 1932.
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Today’s Daily Cartoon
A duo effort from Navied Mahdavian & Marta Florio.
Thanks for introducing me to Ralph Barton, Miguel Covarrubias and John Held, Jr.
It appears to me that Covarrubias was a contemporary of Al Hirschfeld.