The New Yorker’s First Christmas Issue –Above: S.W. Reynold’s cover — his second of a dozen for The New Yorker The not quite year old New Yorker was still finding its sea legs by the end of 1925. Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters had yet to appear; Ellin Mackay’s “Why We Go to Cabarets” had just recently broken through and started
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Here’s a Helen Hokinson original drawing we’ve had in the Spill archives for a while. Because of the Christmas tree theme it tends to get more attention around here at holiday time (meaning it’s hung on a wall). As you can see, the piece is in rough shape — I’m glad it survived whatever it went through. The drawing is
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Making my way around Ebay this morning, I came across the below (signed) photo of the late very great New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist, Helen Hokinson. “Mr. Ross” is, of course, Harold Ross, the fellow who invented The New Yorker Magazine. Helen Hokinson’s A-Z Entry: Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949,
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Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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