An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features.
The week of December 27-31, 2021
The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Emily Bernstein, Suerynn Lee, Mort Gerberg, Ellis Rosen.
Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes (The New Yorker‘s Assistant Cartoon Editor) with Ella Quittner, Ali Fitzgerald.
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Ringing In The New Year (On Zoom)”
_______________________________________________________
A Rea Irvin Album Cover
We’ve seen a bunch of James Thurber album covers on the Spill recently; here’s the first Rea Irvin album cover I’ve come across. Irvin illustrated Paul Wing’s book of the same title:
Rea Irvin’s Spill A-Z 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.