Close-Up Of A George Price Original; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Mary Lawton

Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at a George Price original drawing.

Here’s his entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:

George Price (above) Born in Coytesville, New Jersey, June 9, 1901. Died January 12, 1995, Engelwood, New Jersey. New Yorker work: 1929 – 1991. Lee Lorenz, the New Yorker’s former Art/Cartoon editor, called Price one of the magazine’s great stylists (along with Peter Arno, Helen Hokinson, James Thurber, and William Steig. Of the many Price collections here are two favorites:  Browse At Your Own Risk (1977), and The World of George Price: A 55-Year Retrospective (1988)

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The Daily Cartoon

Today’s Daily cartoon, about the ever growing field of democratic candidates, is by Mary Lawton.  Ms. Lawton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.

 

 

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