(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New Yorker covers and art history from the magazine’s Golden Age, there’s no better place this winter than the Westport Historical Society
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Exhibit: “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 moreLibrarians tour New Yorker’s library; S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts
Librarians tour New Yorker’s Library: From The Desk Set, April 14, 2011, this piece, “The New Yorker Library (aka the best place on earth).” In the above photo from the post: a glimpse of William Hamilton’s, J.B. Handelsman’s and Alice Harvey’s scrapbooks. S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts: Yesterday afternoon while re-reading Prudence Crowther’s Introduction to her book, Don’t Tread on Me;
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