At The Miami Book Fair Tomorrow: Liana Finck & Bob Eckstein
Catch Liana Finck and Bob Eckstein in a joint appearance tomorrow morning at Miami Dade College. Here’s the info!
Above: Ms. Finck’s latest book and Mr. Eckstein’s.*
Liana Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here.
Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here.
*Full disclosure: my work, as well as my wife’s (Liza Donnelly) appears in Everyone’s A Critic
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Meet The Artist (1943): Alajalov
Another in a series of self portraits of New Yorker artists included in the Meet The Artist catalog published by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1943.
Alajalov’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Constantin Alajalov Born Constantin Aladjalov, 1900, Rostov-on-the-Don, Russia. Died Oct., 1987, Amenia, New York. New Yorker work: 1926 -1960. Perhaps best known for his New Yorker covers ( he also supplied cover art to other publications). Key collection: Conversation Pieces (The Studio Publications Inc., 1942) w/ commentary by Janet Flanner. A profile from The Saturday Evening Post.
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Look! Up in the sky!…by J.A.K. who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014.