Avedon’s Arno Auctioned

  From Stephen Nadler’s fun blog, Attempted Bloggery, December 21, 2012, “Peter Arno’s Mistletoe” The Arno drawing, once given to Richard Avedon by Tina Brown, was recently auctioned at Sotheby’s.   It appeared in The New Yorker, December 26, 1942.  (An Arno war time cover adorned the magazine that week as well).

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The First New Yorker Cartoon

As the 86th anniversary of The New Yorker approaches,  I’ve played a bit of New Yorker Trivial Pursuit, thinking about the first issue, and wondering who had the very first cartoon in the first issue of The New Yorker. Once you’ve made your way past the famous Rea Irvin Eustace Tilley cover, and have turned the first page (with its

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