“The New Yorker Family Reunion Panel” featuring children of Golden Age New Yorker artists, Alice Harvey, Perry Barlow, Edna Eicke, Arthur Getz and Whitney Darrow, Jr., Saturday, April 12th at The Westport Historical Society. Also on the panel: the children of James Geraghty, the magazine’s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. You can find examples of work by the artists
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Kaamran Hafeez on Using Gag Writers; Westport Historical Society New Yorker Cover Artists Bio Pt.3: Helen Hokinson, Reginald Massie & Arthur Getz
Here’s Kaamran Hafeez, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2010, on using gag writers and co-crediting their work. The link will take you to his website where you’ll find all sorts of other information (a bio, work for other publications, etc.). Here’s the link to his work on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. To the left:
Read moreNew Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(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
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
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