Continuing a Spill New Year’s Day tradition…here’s a rejected cover idea from long long ago (1980s? 70s?…can’t recall, doesn’t matter).
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Attempted Bloggery Looks At Rea Irvin’s New Year’s Art
From Attempted Bloggery, “A Happy New Year From Rea Irvin” — a fun way to begin the year, with a survey of Rea Irvin New Year’s art, including a personal fave, below.
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Rea Irvin’s A-Z Spill Entry:
Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art and only art supervisor (some refer to him as its first art editor) holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title of art editor. Irvin then became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn officially succeeded Harold Ross in early 1952. Irvin’s last original work for the magazine was the magazine’s cover of July 12, 1958. The February 21, 1925 Eustace Tilley cover had been reproduced every year on the magazine’s anniversary until 1994, when R. Crumb’s Tilley-inspired cover appeared. Tilley has since reappeared, with other artists substituting from time-to-time.