Carrying on a Spill Super Bowl tradition, here’s my drawing from The New Yorker issue of October 16, 2006. And below, since we’re in such a heavy political time, here’s another (my only other football drawing) from the issue of October 23, 2017.
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Three Helen Hokinson Covers For The Stage
Browsing around the web this Groundhog Day morning I came upon three covers by the late very great New Yorker artist, Helen Hokinson for The Stage. I’d never seen any of these before.
Ms. Hokinson’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois, 1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956). According to a New Yorker document produced during Harold Ross’s editorship (1925-1951) rating their artists, Ms. Hokinson and Peter Arno occupied a special category unto themselves above all others.