Peter Arno Born on This Day in 1904

Celebrating Arno’s birthday this year is especially exciting. As mentioned here recently, his biography will be in bookstores this spring.

Until then, here’s a newspaper clipping that nicely bullet points Arno in 1930, five years into his 43 year run at The New Yorker. He was twenty-six at the time, and fast becoming a star, not just in the pages of the magazine, but in American popular culture.

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