Birnbaum’s Sinatra In late 1946, The New Yorker ran a three part series on Frank Sinatra by E.J. Kahn, Jr.. The three parts became a book (a small book: 5″ x 7 1/2″), with each part of the series accompanied by a different illustration — and different illustrator.* Abe Birnbaum supplied Part Two’s illustration: I think it was the most
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Back To Birnbaum Nearly five years ago — April 9, 2016 to be exact — I posted “New Yorker Artist, Abe Birnbaum, Nothing’s Ugly. Everything Is What It Is” and I showed a scan of Philip Hamburger’s first book, The Oblong Blur with an Abe Birnbaum cover. I loved that cover at first sight, and always had it on my
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: As mentioned here last week, the cover (shown above), by Edel Rodriguez was early-released. Here (once again) is the Cover Story post with him. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists and seventeen cartoons. One newbie: Jacob Breckenridge,
Read moreThe New Yorker section of the upcoming Swann auction is an awful lot of fun. The Addams cover shown above is just one of the gems listed. To see the “3D catalog” go here. Other New Yorker artists whose work is going under the gavel include Charles Barsotti, Bemelmans, Abe Birnbaum, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Ed Fisher, Heidi Goennel,
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