Here’s a wonderful collection of the late great Al Frueh’s theater work for The New Yorker and elsewhere. The New York Times had Al Hirschfeld, The New Yorker had Al Frueh. Mr. Frueh’s New Yorker colleague, Brendan Gill provides an informative and insightful intro. For more on Mr. Frueh, here’s a Spill piece about him, “The First New Yorker Cartoon”
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Attempted Bloggery On Attributed Original Cartoon Art
Stephen Nadler’s wonderful site, Attempted Bloggery takes aim at original art at auction attributed to Peter Arno. Is it Arno? Oh please. See it all here.
Read moreFave Bookstore Find of the Day; Nice Price At a Price
Fave Bookstore Find of the Day The other day while browsing around my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn, with two New Yorker pals (John Cuneo and Danny Shanahan) the above book caught my eye because of the Thurber drawing. My eyes widened when I realized I had never seen this particular book before (or had I?). It turned out
Read moreTwo Blog Posts of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind & Attempted Bloggery
Two favorite New Yorker-related blogs making for fun Saturday reading. First, A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker with its look at the issue of June 30, 1928 featuring the ever pleasing work of Helen Hokinson on the cover. Work shown in the post: Alice Harvey, Al Frueh, and Peter Arno. And then there’s
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