In February of 1991 when The New Yorker offices moved from 25 West 43rd Street across the street to 20 West 43rd, some housecleaning was in order. Some of the objects that once sat in the Art Department couldn’t make the move due to space considerations. Among the few generously donated to our collection was this oddity: a large
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A blast from the past: Meet the Artist
In 1943, San Francisco’s M.H. De Young Memorial Museum held an exhibit of artist’s self portraits called “Meet the Artist.” The catalog, 8 1/2″ x 7 3/4″ is a gem. Of the 188 artists represented, a number are New Yorker contributors: James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, Otto Soglow, Mischa Richter, Richard Taylor, Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Roberta MacDonald,
Read moreHokinson’s My Best Girls and more…
(Above, Hokinson’s 1943 cover illustration for Emily Kimbrough’s We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood) Today’s Ink Spill was inspired by a Stevereads blog post, My Best Girls! from July 15, 2011. As the post’s author, Mr. Donoghue, points out, all of Hokinson’s collections are “well worth finding.” Here then is a checklist of all her collections: So
Read moreThree Summer Finds
On this Summertime slow cartoon news day I thought I’d post photos of treasures found on a recent expedition northeast of my home. Jeremy, a main character from The Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine, was in a church basement thrift shop. When I held Jeremy up into the air and asked the woman manning the register, “How much?” she replied,
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