50 Years Ago In The New Yorker After deciding I’d like to see what was happening, cartoon-wise in The New Yorker 50 years ago, I stepped into the magazine’s time machine (otherwise known as its archive), and was pleased to see this
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New Yorker Art Editors: James Geraghty, Albert Hubbell & Lee Lorenz
We conclude the Westport Historical Society bios from their current exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport with James Geraghty, Albert Hubbell and Lee Lorenz. The three share the distinction of overseeing The New Yorker‘s Art Department between 1939 through 1997. Mr. Hubbell holds a unique position as the only temporary Art editor in The New Yorker‘s
Read moreExhibit: “Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport”
From The Westport Historical Society webpage: Between 1925 and 1989, 16 New Yorker artists living in and around Westport-Weston produced a remarkable 761 covers for The New Yorker Magazine. The Westport Historical Society’s next two exhibits share the covers
Read moreHarold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want to believe) a stable of magazine cartoonists unrivaled in American publishing. Some have called that era of the magazine’s cartoons its Golden Age. The guiding forces of the
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