Group Exhibit In Connecticut Includes Work By Arthur Getz The Rose Algrant Show in West Cornwall Connecticut will include work by the late exceptionally great New Yorker artist Arthur Getz. Mr. Getz holds the title of most prolific cover artist in the magazine’s history (213 in his 50 years of contributing). The Spill contacted Mr. Getz’s daughter for information
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For quite some time now, the daughter of Arthur Getz, the late New Yorker cover artist (and holder of the title of most prolific New Yorker cover artist of all time) has been posting his covers on Instagram, (Arthurkimmiggetz) always identifying them by their chronological appearance in (on!) the magazine. The other day she posted the cover of July 6,
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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Back in 1981 when the U.S. edition of J.J. Sempe’s Displays Of Affection was published, The New Yorker artist, Edward Koren, provided, as you see right there on the cover above, the translation and introduction. The Sempe-Koren connection extended beyond the writing of the intro to the book, as Koren was both friend and link to Sempe’s grand entrance
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