Charles Saxon’s Neckties
Adam Gopnik’s “The Knotty Death Of The Necktie,” (a Weekend Essay on newyorker.com) has this to say about the late great Charles Saxon:
If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies. The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon captured these transitions as they occurred, in a career that can be seen as a dazzling study of ties and their meanings.
Bouncing off of Mr. Gopnik’s essay, I thought it would be fun to show a few neckties from Mr. Saxon’s drawings (1950s-1970s).
Left: a snippet of Saxon’s August 5, 1974 New Yorker cover
Below… a Saxon drawing from the issue of February 16, 1957:
Below: from the issue of April 12, 1969:
Below: from the issue of Feb 26, 1972:
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