The Tilley Watch Online, March 17-21, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Amy Hwang, Sarah Kempa, Dan Misea, Brendan Loper, Meredith Southard. ______________________________________________________ “Rollicking Satiric Outbursts “…An Ad For A Golden Age New Yorker Album The above ad appeared in the December 9, 1939 New
Read more
Now That’s A Cover! From one of the great (and possibly unheralded) New Yorker cover artists, Constantin Alajalov, this beauty from the issue of January 7, 1939. Mr. Constantin had approximately one hundred and seventy*(!) covers, and forty-three cartoons, in his thirty-four year run at The New Yorker __________________________________________________________________ *The Complete New Yorker database and The Complete Book Of Covers
Read more
Thurber Illustrates In A Word…Three Ads This fun book by Margaret Ernst, originally published in 1939, contained sixty-three Thurber drawings (drawn specifically for Ernst’s book). In other words (no pun) it’s essential for any Thurber library. To promote the book, the publisher ran ads in three consecutive issues of The New Yorker, beginning with the issue of September 16, 1939.
Read more
A Ralph Barton Art Supply Ad (With Peter Arno) Back in the Roaring Twenties, Pelican Ink reminded Ralph Barton (and New Yorker readers) that its ink was available in the U.S.A.. The ad below shows a passage from a New Yorker piece on Ralph Barton, Through The Magnifying Glass (by Charles G.Shaw) from the magazine’s November 5, 1927 issue. The
Read more