Weekend Spill: 64 Works By Steinberg Go To Long Island Museum; The Tilley Watch Online; Meet The Artist (1943): Alan Dunn; Liza Donnelly Speaks on Drawing For Change; Upcoming Swann Auction Loaded With New Yorker Art

64 Steinberg Works To Long Island Museum From ArtNews, November 15, 2019, “Parrish Art Museum Acquires 64 Works By Famed Cartoonist Saul Steinberg”  Mr. Steinberg’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker work: 1941 – (The New Yorker publishes his work posthumously). Steinberg is one of the giants of

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“The Table In Mr. Ross’s Office Where We Used To Sit To Work On Pictures”; Book Of Interest: Alay-Oop By William Gropper; A Case For Pencils On Maddie Dai’s Tools Of The Trade; Daily Shouts & Daily Cartoon Cartoonists; Meet The Artist (1943): Dorothy McKay

“The Table Where We Used To Sit To Work On Pictures” A photo I’ve seen before on the web, but never with the note attached you see above. The letter, signed “Jim”  was written by the then art editor James Geraghty.* The “Gardner” it’s addressed to was likely Gardner Rea, one of the magazine’s artists. There’s another possibility: the “Gardner”

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The Weekend Spill: The Online Watch, November 3-8, 2019; A Swann Galleries Teaser With Addams, Steinberg & More

The Online Watch: a listing of New Yorker cartoonists who’ve contributed to The Daily Cartoon and/or Daily Shouts, November 3-8, 2019. The Daily Cartoon:  Jon Adams, Ward Sutton, Ali Solomon, Kim Warp, Lila Ash. Daily Shouts: David Ostow, J.A.K. (with Erin Chack), Teresa Burns Parkhurst. ________________________________ Swann Galleries December 10th Teaser The upcoming December 10th Swann Illustration catalog is not

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