The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Bruce McCall downsizes the Chrysler Building. Here’s a link to a brief Q&A with the artist (bonus: within this Q&A there’s a link to his current exhibit of work at The New York Historical Society). The Issue:
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From a great little catalog for a 1943 exhibit, “Meet The Artist,” at San Francisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, here’s a Thurber self portrait and bio, with the intriguing first sentence: “My life story is simple.” The exhibit also included the following New Yorker artists: Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Alan Dunn, William Gropper, Rea Irvin, Roberta Macdonald,
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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 Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing
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