It didn’t take long for The New Yorker to have its first July 4th cover (by that I mean, an issue dated July 4th). Ilonka Karasz delivered this Coney Island-centric beauty — her fourth New Yorker cover — when the magazine was less than six months old.
Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New York, May 26, 1981. New Yorker work: Ms. Karasz was a prolific New Yorker cover artist, with 185 published. Her first appeared on the issue of April 4, 1925; her last appeared on the issue of October 22, 1973. Her Wikipedia entry