Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A cat in the window. This is, at the least, the 5th cat in a window New Yorker cover since the early 1970s (I’ll eventually go all the way back to the beginning of the magazine’s
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Fave Photo Of The Weekend: Harold & Harpo (Ross & Marx) The below photo, dated June of 1931, hitherto unseen (by me) came to the Spill courtesy of Steve Stoliar, who knows his Marx Brothers. Here’s Mr. Stoliar on the photo: “Taken at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco when Harpo and Harold were staying while in town to greet
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The Tilley Watch Online: The Week Of November 30 -December 4, 2020 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Yasin Osman, Ben Schwartz, Emily Flake, Brooke Bourgeois, Teresa Burns Parkhurst Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump’s Explosive Tell-All” Video Department: “How To Draw A Wedding” Another in a series featuring The New Yorker’s
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