There will be an exhibit of the late John Norment’s watercolors at the Leclerc Contemporary Gallery beginning October 22nd, and running through November 8th.
Info: Leclerc Contemporary Gallery,
19 Willard Road, Norwalk, CT 06851
located at the Fairfield County Antique and Design Center
Here’s Ink Spill‘s John Norment New Yorker Cartoonists A- Z entry:
Born, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1911. Died, Westport, Connecticut, 1988. New Yorker work: fourteen drawings and two covers, between 1969 and 1982. According to his website (run by his niece) Norment had a long, wide ranging career, working as assistant art director for Esquire, as an editor at Dell for their humor publications ( such as 1,000 Laughs, You’ve Gotta Be Joking), a World War 2 combat photographer-correspondent, a professional photographer, a painter, a writer and a vocalist. More information about his life and work can be found here: johnnorment.com/about.htm