The New Yorker has published a number of Olympic themed covers and drawings in its lifetime (the issue currently on the newsstands is the most recent example with its Olympics cover and spot drawings ). Here’s Anatol Kovarsky’s beautiful New Yorker cover celebrating
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New York Times Anatol Kovarsky Obit; The Tilley Watch
William Grimes splendid obit of Anatol Kovarsky is in today’s New York Times (and online). [left: Mr. Kovarsky and his wife, Lucille Patton] ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ …Cartoonist John McNamee debuts in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Mr. McNamee is the 8th (9th?) new addition so far this year… _________________________________________________________________________________________________ …And
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The past three months we’ve lost three giants in the New Yorker Cartoonists constellation: William Hamilton in April, Frank Modell in May and Anatol Kovarsky in June. Together they contributed just over 2,600 pieces (including covers) to the magazine, but of course it is immeasurable what they really gave in hours,
Read moreKovarsky’s Last Drawing
Three years ago, I wrote a piece about the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky, and titled the piece “Still Drawing After All These Years” (a version of the piece later appeared on the New Yorker’s website). Had I updated the piece last month I could’ve easily revived that same title. You see, Kovarsky, at 97 was still drawing.
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