Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers
Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All Things):
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Love Conquers All (1922); Pluck And Luck (1925); The Early Worm (1927); 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Or David Copperfield (1928); The Treasurer’s Report & Other Aspects Of Community Singing (1930); From Bed To Worse (1934); After 1903 — Or What? (1938); Benchley Beside Himself (1943)
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Gluyas Williams Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. New Yorker work: March 13, 1926 – Aug 25, 1951. Key collections: The Gluyas Williams Book ( Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929), The Gluyas Williams Gallery (Harper, 1956).
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Mads Horwath Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest
Mads Horwath, shown above, bottom right, who began contributing cartoons to The New Yorker in July of 2019, joins co-hosts Nicole Chrolavicius, Paul Nesja, and Vin Coca in the latest CCCP episode (#152 for those keeping track). Listen here.