“Drawing Life” With Liza Donnelly
From The Norman Rockwell Museum, this news of an “online and on-demand program of sketching and conversation about creative expression, the power of persuasion, and illustration” with Liza Donnelly, a long-time New Yorker contributor (Ms. Donnelly first sold a drawing to the magazine in 1979). The event takes place on January 19, 2023.
Link to Ms. Donnelly’s website here.
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A Gluyas Williams 18 Parter Sold At Auction
From Attempted Bloggery, January 11, 2023, “Gluyas Williams: Soap and Water”
— coverage of a recent auction of an 18 part drawing by one of The New Yorker‘s greatest artists.
Mr. William’s A-Z entry:
Gluyas Williams (above left undated; right:1975) Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. NYer work: March 13, 1926 – Aug 25, 1951. Key collections: The Gluyas Williams Book ( Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929), The Gluyas Williams Gallery (Harper, 1956). Website: http://www.gluyaswilliams.com/