“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration”
Longtime New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly has curated a whiz-bang of a show at The Society of Illustrators, properly kicking off 2025, the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker‘s birth.
“Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” features well over a hundred pieces of original art covering the magazine’s eras, from Harold Ross to David Remnick.
Opening Reception, January 16th, 2025.
Left: original art of a drawing by Alice Harvey that appeared in The New Yorker, March 20, 1926.
At Tiffany’s
She: “May I see your cheapest watches?”
He: “These, madam, are our least expensive wristwatches.”
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: a puzzler
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
It’s the annual “Cartoons & Puzzles” issue, with special features along with the magazine’s single panel drawings. As for the latter (listed above), there are nineteen cartoons, with no newbies, and no duos (that we know of). Several of the single panels are gathered in a section, “The Funnies.” The longest active contributing cartoonist in the Cartoons & Puzzles issue is this cartoonist.
The special features contributors are:
Ali Fitzgerald (“The Most Dangerous Cruciverbalists”)
Navied Mahdavian (“First Fast”)
Liana Finck (“Bored Game”)
Roz Chast and J.A.K. (“Goops and Slops”)
Suerynn Lee illustrates “Recipe Swap”
Ed Steed provides the banner drawing for the magazine’s annual “Greeting Friends,” as well as a full page illustration beside the written piece.
There’s a special feature, “Laugh Lines” with previously published drawings by: William Haefeli, Zoe Si, Alan Dunn, Helen Hokinson, Perry Barlow, Mike Twohy, and Warren Miller.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
As happens with the “Cartoons & Puzzles” issue, the Talk heading this week has been temporarily replaced. Substituting for the heading that’s been (in my mind) substituting for Rea Irvin’s classic design (shown above…read more here), is a heading by Christina Spano, an illustrator, and comic book artist.