We continue with the wonderful short bios from The Westport Historical Society where the exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport is currently running. My thanks to the Society for allowing these to appear on Ink Spill.
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New Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New Yorker covers and art history from the magazine’s Golden Age, there’s no better place this winter than the Westport Historical Society
Read moreExhibit: “Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport”
From The Westport Historical Society webpage: Between 1925 and 1989, 16 New Yorker artists living in and around Westport-Weston produced a remarkable 761 covers for The New Yorker Magazine. The Westport Historical Society’s next two exhibits share the covers
Read moreCatching Up With…Roz Chast
Catching Up With…Roz Chast Roz Chast has been contributing her work to The New Yorker since 1978 when she burst on the scene in the magazine’s pages causing a mixture of excitement and in some quarters, just a little confusion. The veteran New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Saxon, a giant in the magazine’s ranks, queried Ms. Chast, and not in the
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