Now That’s A Cover!
From one of the great (and possibly unheralded) New Yorker cover artists, Constantin Alajalov, this beauty from the issue of January 7, 1939. Mr. Constantin had approximately one hundred and seventy*(!) covers, and forty-three cartoons, in his thirty-four year run at The New Yorker
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*The Complete New Yorker database and The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker disagree as to his true total. The database indicates 171 and the book of covers 168.
Constantin Alajalov’s A-Z Entry:
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 and his Wikipedia page.
I have an a brief write up on Constantin Alajalov from a book titled “Forty Illustrators and How They Work”, printed in 1946 and edited by Ernest W. Watson. I posted it on the podcast facebook page a few years ago. If you haven’t seen it, I can email it to you. The book also had articles on Gregory d’Alessio and George Price.
Would love to see all of the pieces on those folks. Paul. Thanks!