Charles Saxon’s Home
From the New Canaanite, January 4, 2024, “New Canaan Now & Then: Stevens-Verleger-Deerson-Saxon House”–-This bit of history about the late great Charles Saxon’s Connecticut home.
Saxon’s A-Z Spill Entry:
Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920, died in Stamford, Conn., Dec 6, 1988. New Yorker work: 1943 – 1991 (2 drawings published posthumously). Key collection: One Man’s Fancy ( Dodd, Mead, 1977). One of the giants of the New Yorker’s stable of artists. He could do it all: covers, spreads, single panels.
More Reading:
“It Was Nice” — Edward Sorel’s terrific 1997 piece on Saxon In American Heritage
Ink Spill (March 2023): “Charles Saxon On A Motorcycle”